Not Fellini's best, but Fellini nevertheless.
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01/09/09
The Clowns (1971)
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Reviews Counted:8
Fresh:8
Rotten:0
Average Rating:6.8/10
Runtime: 1 hr 33 mins
Genre: Television
Synopsis: Filmmaker Federico Fellini continues to explore his fascination with clowns and the circus in this one-of-a-kind salute to the big top performers of yesteryear that also cleverly parodies... [More]
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This is the film's ultimate message: don't think so much and just try to have some fun.
08/29/06
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06/24/06
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03/18/06
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06/20/05
It's not that The Clowns is not a good deal of fun, or that it is boring; it's just that -- to me, anyway -- this sort of coda doesn't do justice to the entire career.
05/09/05
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04/13/05
Valentine to the world of clowns.
02/07/05
This is artful and sometimes very amusing, but it doesn't work as fiction because Fellini is tied to facts, and it doesn't work as documentary because Fellini will not (cannot?) abandon his gift of giving the raw material an artistic shape.
10/23/04
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