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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
One of Fellini's Best, August 9, 2000
This is my personal favorite Fellini film. His exercises in cinematic self-reflexivity and artistic subjectivity are wholly successful here, and the film is filled with sequences that never fail to inspire curiosity, amusement, and fascination. While there's no shortage of the grotesque, eerily dream-like images that have come to be regarded as "Felliniesque", there is also a great deal of warmth that's impossible to dislike. If you like this film, you should also watch "Roma", which similiarly parodies the pretensions of documentary films within a relatively non-linear framework.A true classic!
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Au revoir my vanished dreams !, November 23, 2004
If you thought everything was said about the childhood universe with Willy Wonka , Wizard of Oz , Mary poppins or Fantasy , sorry you made a wrong choice .
The circus world is one of our invisible links with our childhood . And no one as Fellini free spirit to make a glorious homage to the clowns and the circus meaning in our lives .
Haunting , beautifully filmed and exhilarating script will amaze you over and over again.
Fellini showed once more why he , Tarkovsky and Bresson were the freest filmakers in all the cinema story .
A thousand carats gem !
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Uneven, sentimental, but with breath-taking sequences, September 17, 1999
By A Customer
Originally made for TV, this film has some real dry patches (the scripted pseudo-documentary sections of Fellini & his film crew are particularly arch), but it's all worth it for the moments of absolutely heart-stopping wonder it contains. When this film was first released theatrically in the U.S., I returned to see it repeatedly just to watch the AUDIENCE at the moment when the "dead" clown, visibly harnessed, lifts off the neck of the giant champagne bottle and begins swinging around the soundstage as millions of streamers shoot down. Ya gotta be there. Probably far more effective on the large screen, as a communal audience experience, but don't let that stop you from viewing it on video.
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