The Invisible Circus (2001)
Average Rating: 4.1/10
Reviews Counted: 61
Fresh: 13 | Rotten: 48
Despite Jordana Brewster's strong performance, The Invisible Circus lacks the necessary dramatic tension to be interesting. Also, the cultural and political contexts of the period are barely explored.
Average Rating: 3.8/10
Critic Reviews: 20
Fresh: 3 | Rotten: 17
Despite Jordana Brewster's strong performance, The Invisible Circus lacks the necessary dramatic tension to be interesting. Also, the cultural and political contexts of the period are barely explored.
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A young woman trying to better understand the fate of her sister finds herself following in her footsteps in this emotional drama. 18-year-old Phoebe (Jordanna Brewster) has been haunted by the memory of her sister Faith (Cameron Diaz), who died under mysterious circumstances while travelling through Europe several years earlier. Looking for closure, Phoebe decides to retrace her sister's journey in hopes of finding out what happened to her. In the course of her travels through France, Portugal,
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Jordana Brewster
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Cameron Diaz
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Blythe Danner
Gail O'Connor -
Patrick Bergin
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Camilla Belle
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Moritz Bleibtreu
Eric -
Isabelle Pasco
Claire -
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All Critics (73) | Top Critics (23) | Fresh (13) | Rotten (48) | DVD (8)
Strangely dispassionate and uncommitted for a movie about passionate commitment.
Top CriticA movie for people who are so sensitive they barely notice the feelings of others or what's going on in the world.
The film is overnarrated and in spots overwritten, but Brooks ... does well with actors, and he has coaxed an extraordinary performance out of the young Jordana Brewster.
Part beautifully shot European travelogue and part moving exploration of the darker side of the hippie era's rabid idealism.
A woefully tame and pallid affair.
For whatever reason, Brooks has decided to distance his characters from the audience, and the result is a cold, uninvolving experience.
Okay for older teens, but nothing special.
Adam Brooks' film is a total miss, both as a potentially intriguing look into the tumultuous politics of the 1960s and 1970s and as a coming of age of a girl obsessed with her sister's mysterious death
Whenever Brooks hits a stride, the mystery element takes over, and that crudely formed aspect of the film overwhelms what is fully functional.
Cameron Diaz and Christopher Eccleston? Good. Jordana Brewster? Actorly indication, stilted line readings and nostril-flaring petulance. The result? A bad day at the Circus.
By the time the uninspiring finale occurs the audience is completely lost in boredom and longing for the credits.
Picturesque European locations, a mystery whose successive folds will be uncovered by Faith's ex-boyfriend (Christopher Eccleston, in a ratty wig he will have to live down for years), and some heavily psychological sermonizing.
It's one big cliché of sentimental drivel.
Brooks tries to cram too much into his scenes, combining both the film's external world and characters' inner thoughts in a way that is cluttered and lacking in imagination.
It is both admirable in its convictions yet unaware of its limitations; it strives for beauty and meaning, but ends up looking silly.
A credible portrait of an era, and draws in its tensions and conflicts with quite some power.
A soul-satisfying film about one young woman's rite of initiation into adulthood.
Though the script is remarkably faithful to Jennifer Egan's novel, it relies too heavily on voice-over to move the plot along, preferring to baldly inform the audience of developments than letting us figure them out for ourselves.
The Invisible Circus feels less like a drug trip and more like the annoying side effects on the morning after.
It's mostly dreary, plodding stuff that works as psychology 101.
Although well cast and acted, the movie doesn't amount to much. Still, it is an enjoyable enough diversion.
The slow pace, lack of tension ... and increasingly preposterous developments will have many viewers seeing through this film long before it draws to a slow and laborious close.
Comes off as oddly uninvolving, if not entirely irrelevant.
Not a trip worth taking.
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