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The Last Circus

Carlos Areces

Carolina Bang

Antonio de la Torre

Manuel Tallafé

Enrique Villén

Santiago Segura

Alejandro Tejerías

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Gracia Olayo

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Paco Sagarzazu

Terele Pávez

Luis Varela

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Juan Viadas

Fran Perea

Joaquín Climent

Juana Cordero

Fernando Chinarro

Jorge Clemente

Sasha Di Bendetto

Ángel Acero

David Sánchez Calvo

José Manuel Cervino

Isidro Montalvo

Javier Botet

Raúl Arévalo

Luz Valdenebro

Ignasi Vidal

Josu Ormaetxe

Josean Bengoetxea

Chusa Barbero

Fernando Soto

Merche Romero

Elsa Cabo

Anita Torres

David M. Antón

Biaffra

Mikel Bustamante

Diego Calderón

Sixto Cid

Luis Lobos Negros

Ángel Cristo

Alexander Estrella

Torcuato Fernández Miranda

Manuel Fraga

Francisco Franco

Raphael

Álex de la Iglesia

Eduardo Hidalgo Jr.

Yousaf Bokhari

Gilles Waterkeyn

Roque Baños

Paco Delgado

Vérane Frédiani

Federico del Cerro

Franck Ribière

Camilla-Valentine Isola

Gerardo Herrero

Adrian Politowski

Alejandro Lázaro

Kiko de la Rica

David Rodriguez

Julián Cancela

Javier Cancela

Luis Miguel Arranz

Ricardo Rocca

José Juan Ramos

Eduardo Moratilla

Ignacio Carreño

Tomás Ordóñez

Cynthia Martínez

Gema García Moresco

Álvaro Hernández Arriero

Daniel Willy Defense

Diego Herberg

Eduardo Fedriani

Álvaro Hernández

Juan José Rodríguez

Pablo Casillas

Fernando Millán

Joaquín Fernández

Dacio Caballero

Jesús Fernández

Daniel Cancela

Antonia Pérez

**_Amusingly offbeat Spanish circus flick is overkill comic booky_**

After a prologue during the Spanish Civil War, the time switches to 1973, Madrid, where a sad clown (Carlos Areces) joins a circus and an alluring trapeze artist catches his eye, but she’s abused by her beau, a supposedly happy clown (Antonio de la Torre). It can’t end well.

A Spanish/French production (with English subtitles), "The Last Circus" (2010) smacks of a Tarantino flick if he did one about a circus and shot it in Spain. Unfortunately, it lacks his compelling dialogues. It’s reminiscent of "Santa Sangre" from two decades prior, just overblown and with a plot revolving around two characters locked in an epic struggle in which a lose-lose scenario is likely.

As the story progresses, one of these characters is reminiscent of The Joker (Jack Nicholson and Heath Ledger’s versions) mixed with Two-Face and Jonah Hex; the other meanwhile morphs into a pudgy version of Papa Emeritus. The last act recalls the climax of 1989’s “Batman,” albeit on amphetamines. 

Statuesque Carolina Bang as the trapeze artist is basically Europe’s taller version of Margot Robbie, a few years before she made it big.

While outrageously madcap and brutal, it’s sometimes amusing and has its highlights. It’s basically too crazy for mass appeal, but no doubt has a cult following. As far as I’m concerned, less is more.

The film runs 1 hour, 47 minutes, and was shot in Spain (Comunidad Valenciana on the southeast coast; Madrid; and, for the last sequence, Valle de los Caídos, aka Valley of the Fallen, which is a half hour drive northwest of the city).

GRADE: C+/B-

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