The Last Circus
- heavy
- brisk
- extreme
- surreal
- bleak
- cold
A trapeze artist must decide between her lust for Sergio, the Happy Clown, or her affection for Javier, the Sad Clown, both of whom are deeply disturbed.
Our read · The Last Circus (2010) reads as a heavy, breathless, surreal horror · drama · surreal entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook, with a strong directorial signature. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.
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The shape of The Last Circus
The reading.
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