Review of The Clown (2011) by Tor M — 13 Nov 2015

Brazilian flick where we follow a circus ran by a father and son. The son is getting quite sick of it and feels rather depressed while his deticated father tries to keep him in this line of work. Eventually the son, Benjamin, is trying to live a different life and the story is sat.

It takes a bit long for the change of story here. Only twenty minutes are left when Benjamin takes on his journey. It looks great without being super impressive and it has some very catchy, cool music that follows and goes perfectly with the awarded film. Over 40 award wins is impressive!

Almost directly the film reminded me a lot of an older Brazilian favorite "O Cheiro do Ralo". It turned out that the lead in that film is the director (and the lead) of "O Palhaco". I guess it really inspired Selton Mello, even if it's not his debut film or his first film after he did "O Cheiro do Ralo". He is probably more known as an actor by the way, doing several roles and only two full lenghts.

A pretty good film, but not too interesting. The ending raise the rating a fair bit and as a total this is worth a go for fans of semi feel-good.

7.5 out of 10 fans.