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2/13 915p THE LAST CIRCUS
The Last Circus
Alex de la Iglesia, 2010, 99 min, Spain
2/13 915p, 2/17 915p
CLOSING NIGHT FILM
In 1937 Spain, a motley bunch of travelling circus performers is press-ganged into fighting the fascist enemy. On the barricades, a demented clown puts his machete-wielding talents to good use. He's later thrown in prison, where he dies. Cut to 1973 when his son now dons the red nose and picks up the weapons. After signing on with a circus, he becomes the target of another clown-a violent drunk. Something has to give, especially since both of these ill-tempered jokesters are in love with the same woman: a beautiful young trapeze artist with a taste for S&M. Let the show begin...
A hard-to-miss metaphor for Spain, this radical, bloodthirsty extravaganza marks the big return to the screen of Alex de la Iglesia (Accion Mutante, The Day of the Beast, Perdita Durango). Never has a political film been so deliriously anarchic, borrowing from every whacked-out cinematic mind you can think of (Terry Gilliam, Sergio Leone, Tod Browning, Buñuel, James Whale, Alfred Hitchcock, Guillermo del Toro and you name it). An ode to the monstrous and grotesque whose every scene is a technical marvel, this mutant, burlesque tragedy-slash-cartoonish historical comedy is truly in a class by itself. (Julien Fonfrède, Festival de Nouveau Cinema)
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LocationRoxie
3117 16th St
San Francisco, CA 94103
United States
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