The journey of Javier, the obese Sad Clown, starts during his childhood in the midst of the Spanish civil war in 1937. His father, one of Spain’s most prominent jesters, is detained and tortured by the fascist regime.
If you like your baroque sex and violence with a side dish of heavy-duty symbolism ... put "The Last Circus" on your must-see list right now.
– Andrew O'Hehir,
Salon.com,
19 Aug 2011
rotten:
You're left with the vague recollection of an interesting movie you were watching before you got kidnapped and subjected to over an hour of torture porn starring a fat, sadistic clown.
– Una LaMarche,
New York Observer,
24 Aug 2011
fresh:
For those with a taste for the subversive and outrageous, run, don't walk.
– Rene Rodriguez,
Miami Herald,
23 Sep 2011
rotten:
From the far-too-teeming brain of Spanish writer/director Alex de la Iglesia, The Last Circus is a bizarre, surreal, grotesque, fascinating, demanding, disappointing and ultimately exhausting political allegory that plays like a waking nightmare.
– Rick Groen,
Globe and Mail,
30 Sep 2011
fresh:
Basque director Alex de la Iglesia's exotic, surreal, hilarious, bloody and utterly explosive grand opus.