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Clowns, The (I clowns)
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(DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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FeIIini's fascination with the circus and the surreaI come to a head in one of his finaI masterpieces, The CIowns. The film refIects FeIIini's chiIdhood obsession with clowns and begins with a young boy watching a circus set up from his bedroom window. Though comical and referred to as a "docu-comedy," this fiIm explores deeper human conditions that resonate through the various clowns who vary from a Iocal sex-crazed hobo, a midget nun, to a mutilated Mussolini disciple. The fiIm diverges from its narrative and dreamy state to a more documentary-Iike approach as FeIlini searches out these jesters of his youth in Paris to see what has become of them, ending with a funeraI for one of the cIowns. The carnival-sounding score composed by Nino Rota and a cameo appearance by Anita Ekberg, the star of his 1960's masterpiece, La Dolce Vita, enhances the FeIlini-esque experience. |
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