The prologue for Alex de la Iglesia‘s new film, “The Last Circus,” which premiered at last year’s Venice Film Festival but is just now making its debut on American shores,Watch The Last Circus Movie Online a kicky, grindhouse shock about a traveling circus interrupted by rebels who recruit the performers to participate in the burgeoning Civil War. The show’s lead clown (Santiago Segura) is handed a machete and forced to stay in his whimsical, gender-bending costume, since the rebel leader says it will scare the shit out of the enemy. And, for whole minutes, we watch as the clown grittily slices and dices members of Franco’s fascist army. After the “happy clown” has been captured and interred in a mine, we see him have a conversation with his young son. His father tells him to keep up the clown tradition of his family, but instead of a happy clown, he’ll be a sad clown. Then, in a tragic/comic moment, his father gets trampled to death by a horse and the son ends up maiming a colonel.
If you get a certain sense of déjà vu from these early sequences, what with the Civil War setting and the mixture of grim reality and occasionally-even-grimmer fantasy, it’s certainly reasonable to draw parallels to the smaller scale work of director Guillermo del Toro, whose “Pan’s Labyrinth” and “The Devil’s Backbone” were both set in that period and defined largely by a mixture of the literal and fantastical. But a bigger clue to the film’s touchstones may be the film’s propulsive title sequence, which is equal parts Sergio Leone and Famous Monsters of Filmland.
As a strumming soundtrack hums, we see images of the Civil War play out against pop culture moments from the same timeframe – things like people doing the Twist, and frequently, flashes of movie monsters of the time such as Frankenstein and Dracula. The Universal monster parallels become clearer later on, but the opening sequence provides just the right amount of context. Watch The Last Circus Movie Online
The film proper opens in 1970, near the end of Franco’s reign, with the happy clown’s son, Javier (Carlos Areces), now a grown (and chubby) man. He’s interviewing for a ragtag circus troupe that brings to mind the films of both Federico Fellini and Jean-Pierre Jeunet. The problem, of course, is that the circus is being led by a “happy clown” named Sergio (Antonio de la Torre), a sadistic bastard whose big introduction is the delivery of a horrifyingly off-color joke about a dead baby. Adding further complications, and lending the appropriate amount of apocalyptic gloom to a movie called “The Last Circus,” is the fact that Javier is in love with Natalia (Carolina Bang), the circus’ gorgeous acrobat who is engaged in an uneasily tempestuous, abusive relationship with Sergio.
Never content to follow a single narrative path for too long, “The Last Circus” veers this way and that, but really lets its intentions be known when Javier, in a misplaced go at chivalry, brutally disfigures Sergio and is forced to go on the run, literally turning into an animal that lives in the forest, scavenging for food. After he runs afoul of Colonel Salcedo (Sancho Gracia), the military man responsible for his father’s death (who Javier critically wounded), Javier all but loses his mind – he chemically bleaches his skin, mutilates his cheeks in an attempt at permanent makeup, and jaggedly crafts clown clothes out of religious garments, seeking revenge on both Sergio, for what Javier perceives as his injustices against Natalia and the circus, and society at large (a horrifying clown, packing two large machine , is an uncomfortable image to say the least). To View The Full HD : free movies online for free
If you get a certain sense of déjà vu from these early sequences, what with the Civil War setting and the mixture of grim reality and occasionally-even-grimmer fantasy, it’s certainly reasonable to draw parallels to the smaller scale work of director Guillermo del Toro, whose “Pan’s Labyrinth” and “The Devil’s Backbone” were both set in that period and defined largely by a mixture of the literal and fantastical. But a bigger clue to the film’s touchstones may be the film’s propulsive title sequence, which is equal parts Sergio Leone and Famous Monsters of Filmland.
As a strumming soundtrack hums, we see images of the Civil War play out against pop culture moments from the same timeframe – things like people doing the Twist, and frequently, flashes of movie monsters of the time such as Frankenstein and Dracula. The Universal monster parallels become clearer later on, but the opening sequence provides just the right amount of context. Watch The Last Circus Movie Online
The film proper opens in 1970, near the end of Franco’s reign, with the happy clown’s son, Javier (Carlos Areces), now a grown (and chubby) man. He’s interviewing for a ragtag circus troupe that brings to mind the films of both Federico Fellini and Jean-Pierre Jeunet. The problem, of course, is that the circus is being led by a “happy clown” named Sergio (Antonio de la Torre), a sadistic bastard whose big introduction is the delivery of a horrifyingly off-color joke about a dead baby. Adding further complications, and lending the appropriate amount of apocalyptic gloom to a movie called “The Last Circus,” is the fact that Javier is in love with Natalia (Carolina Bang), the circus’ gorgeous acrobat who is engaged in an uneasily tempestuous, abusive relationship with Sergio.
Never content to follow a single narrative path for too long, “The Last Circus” veers this way and that, but really lets its intentions be known when Javier, in a misplaced go at chivalry, brutally disfigures Sergio and is forced to go on the run, literally turning into an animal that lives in the forest, scavenging for food. After he runs afoul of Colonel Salcedo (Sancho Gracia), the military man responsible for his father’s death (who Javier critically wounded), Javier all but loses his mind – he chemically bleaches his skin, mutilates his cheeks in an attempt at permanent makeup, and jaggedly crafts clown clothes out of religious garments, seeking revenge on both Sergio, for what Javier perceives as his injustices against Natalia and the circus, and society at large (a horrifying clown, packing two large machine , is an uncomfortable image to say the least). To View The Full HD : free movies online for free
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