The Last Circus
Feature Film | Álex de la Iglesia
Killer clowns from Spain.
Álex de la Iglesia's The Last Circus isn't for the faint of heart; people are mutilated, disfigured and emotionally scarred beyond the point of saving. But behind the terror lies a simple story of love gone wrong; after sad Spanish clown Javier (a fearless Carlos Areces) falls in love with Natalia (Carolina Bang), girlfriend of the sadistic happy clown Sergio (Antonio de la Torre), both men start to lose their grip on reality. Everything about the movie, from the eye-popping costumes to the highly saturated colors and deliberately un-circus-like score, flirts with over-the-top craziness, but Iglesia's ability to find truth in the most bizarre situations grounds the film in a semi-realistic state. Circus veers from jet-black humor to crazed fantasy (sometimes within the same scene), creating a tension that's barely relieved by its vertigo-inducing ending. Javier and Sergio's brutal fight for the masochistic Natalia mirrors the film's subplot of Spain's bloody civil war and highlights the insane depths to which passionate men can be driven. Horrifying and hilarious, The Last Circus challenges the idea that all is fair in love and war.
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