"Semi-autobiography and semi-documentary, this film explores Fellini's fascination with circus and circus clowns."
"Fellini trova il modo di rievocare i sogni, le scoperte, gli stupori della sua infanzia. Special televisivo in forma di bloc-notes, di chiacchierata a ruota libera in cui Fellini continua a parlare di sé stesso attraverso il circo. Confidenziale, qua e là saggistico (Morandini)."@it
"Fellini's fascination with the circus and the surreal come to a head in one of his final masterpieces, The clowns. The film reflects Fellini's childhood obsession with clowns and begins with a young boy watching a circus set up from his bedroom window. Though comical and referred to as a "docu-comedy", this film explores deeper human conditions that resonate through the various clowns who vary from a local sex-crazed hobo, a midget nun, to a mutilated Mussolini disciple. The film diverges from its narrative and dreamy state to a more documentary like approach as Fellini searches out these jesters of his youth in Paris to see what has become of them ending with a funeral for one of the clowns. The carnival sounding score composed by Nino Rota and a cameo appearance by Anita Ekberg, the star of his 1960's masterpiece, La Dolce Vita, enhances the Fellini-esque experience."
"Fellini has put together a montage of clown fantasies ending with a trumpet duet with two clowns in an empty circus tent."@en
"Fellini has put together a montage of clown fantasies ending with a trumpet duet with two clowns in an empty circus tent."
"Director Federico Fellini also co-scripted (with Bernardino Zapponi) this free-wheeling ode to the circus clown."
"A semi-autobiographical comical documentary revealing Fellini's childhood fascination with circus clowns, including interviews with Italian and French clowns and closing with a clown funeral."
"Un jeune enfant assiste, fasciné, au montage d'une tente de cirque. Mais c'est en larmes et effrayé qu'il quitte le spectacle. Tel est le point de départ de la superbe enquête de "Fellini" sur ses souvenirs de personnages clownesques, et sur les clowns de métier, dont l'apothéose est un gigantesque spectacle de clowns mis en scène par l'auteur."
""Depuis sa précoce enfance, Fellini est attiré, voire subjugué, par le cirque. Il entreprend ici une sorte de voyage nostalgique à la rencontre des anciens clowns et de leurs souvenirs". Site Wikipédia, visionné le 13 février 2014."
"Besides recreating some of the most famous clown acts in circus history, Fellini shows the two kinds of clowns that dominated the circus of his boyhood -- the Auguste and the Pierrot."
"Examines the tradition of clowns in the European circus. Includes a semi-autobiographical segment dealing with Fellini's childhood fascination with clowns, a segment featuring present-day clowns in Italian and French circuses, an interview with Tristan Remy, a historian of clowns, and a clown funeral."
"Semi-autobiographical documentary in three parts: Fellini's childhood fascination with circus clowns, some interviews with living clowns, and a clown funeral."
"Semi-autobiographical documentary in three parts: Fellini's childhood fascination with circus clowns, some interviews with living clowns, and a clown funeral."@en
"Consists of Fellini's memories of circuses and clowns of his childhood, his exploration of the symbolic meaning of clowns, and interviews with aging clowns in Paris."
"Il ricordo infantile della sua prima "scoperta" del circo e quello di grotteschi personaggi della sua Rimini spingono Fellini a intraprendere un viaggio alla ricerca dei vecchi clown o della memoria che resta di loro. Dopo una visita al circo di Liana Orfei, e una rapida occhiata ai suoi pagliacci, il regista e la sua troupe si spingono a Parigi..."@it
"A ragout of real memories and mockumentary with Fellini exploring a childhood obsession: circus clowns. Fellini considered ringmaster as an alternate career - here he's a mesmerized MC sharing his still-intense feelings with his audience. In the first of three segments, as a child, Fellini awakens to the raising of a circus outside his home, and he must explore it. The clowns remind young Federico of strange and terrifying neighbors in his seaside hometown of Rimini, so "The Clowns" recreate a few of them in filmed vignettes. Fellini decides to make a documentary about what happened to the classic jesters of his youth, so he accompanies a farcical (and mock) film crew to Paris to investigate clown history, and track down surviving greats. He just happens to run into legendary clown Charlie Chaplin's daughter Alice, and at a circus one of Fellini's best-known stars, Anita Ekberg, there to buy a big cat. At a museum, Fellini is bereft to see the sparse, deteriorating footage of his comic idols. Fellini can't let his movie end this way or this soon, so he creates a grand, much bigger-than-life celebration of the pageantry and mysticism of one of his major influences."
"The circus clowns of film director Federico Fellini's childhood are recalled in the first third of the film followed by interviews with great clowns of the past who are still alive, and ending with a clown funeral."
"Le réalisateur commence par rappeler ses souvenirs d'enfance: sa première rencontre avec les clowns et les personnages grotesques du petit monde villageois. Il entreprend ensuite de retrouver certains clowns célèbres devenus vieux et de leur faire évoquer le monde du cirque et les secrets du métier. Frappé par la disparition des clowns, il compose ensuite un numéro de cirque centré sur la mort et la résurrection d'un représentant typique de ce métier d'amuseurs."
"Fellini's fascination with the circus and the surreal come to a head in one of his final masterpieces, The Clowns. The film reflects Fellini's childhood obsession with clowns and begins with a young boy watching a circus set up from his bedroom window. Though comical and referred to as a 'docu-comedy', this film explores deeper human conditions such as authority, poverty, humility and arrogance."
"Documentaire produit pour la télévision sur les clowns de cirque et leur disparition : souvenirs personnels du réalisateur, entrevues avec de vieux clowns célèbres, secrets du métier, composition d'un numéro centré sur la mort et la résurrection d'un clown."
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