Wow! Such a good movie.

From my favorite movies..

Clever, believable, and super fun to watch. It totally has replay value.

if their story seems completely bonkers, almost like a feverish work of fiction, you ain't heard nothing yet.

Sorry Selton, but obviously you're no Charlie Chaplin, neither as an actor nor as a director. You need to learn the difference between "naive" and "simplistic". It was a fatal mistake to decide to utilize the creative cop-out of a narrator, who rather than commenting, only describes, and here sounds as if he's reading from subtitles for the visually impaired: he says "the people wait", and we see people waiting; he says "the little girl smiles", and we see the little girl smiling This becomes very tiresome very quickly. The pandering to each local mayor is amusing, the photography is well-done, and the music track appropriate. But all in all, it's very easy to understand why this movie didn't make the Academy's short list.

It is, unfortunately, a Brazilian tradition. We are very good in music, TV' s series and soap operas but we are lousy movie makers. Ones can find mistakes in the script, in the sequence, everywhere in almost all films. New and old ones. Brazilian movie makers think they are Italians, but they are not. They think they are Fellini, Antonioni, etc, but they aren't. They are just a poor Selton Mello, and that males a great difference. Difference between somebody behind the cameras and nobody. That is typically a nobody movie. Dull, boring and a never ending movie. It is a movie showing Brazilian inland by a guy that had never been there and does not knows anything about there. The sequences in the countryside of Minas Gerais state are meaningless, false and fake. The dialogs in Portuguese sounds also fake: no local accent, no regional terms, no nothing. The make-up is also fake. There are female countrywomen leaving the crops after a day of work with a very nice hair, straight from a beauty parlor. And that awful movie, like all others in Brazil was financed by different levels of public entities with our people's money. But the core issue of my opinion is that this a RACIST movie. There is a single scene in which the character of Selton Mello, without any dramatic reason, says crystal clearly that black men smell bad. In other words black people stench. And I don't know the reason the movie was nominated to the Oscar, considering we are the second largest "African" Country in the world.

Very bad the film "O PALHAÇO" (The Clown), directed and played by Senton Mello. I pity for the children that I saw many mothers taking to watch this annoying movie, thinking it would supply the lack of a actual circus nowadays in Brazilian big cities. The story tells about a depressed clown,but the cheating advertising from Imagem Filmes hides that. It is a boring movie, depressing, irritating, long-winded, tedious, filled with many unnecessary sequences, as well as with dead times and jokes with no fun at all. The few jokes are about farts and low humorous things like that. I was compelled several times to leave the session in the middle, and it was a relief to realize that it was not a very long movie.

This movie is a Chaplinesque adventure which takes place in the rural back country of Minas Gerais, in Brasil. It has moments of laughter, great tension and tears. Great tension because of the circus life and work of the staff at the circus seems to be all the time on the brinks. If a hurricane topple the tent or the truck breaks and no one have money to fix it, it would be the end of the story... A sad end. Tears, because I wept in the final scene, because it is a grand finale: (1) Benjamin shows up in the circus ring, reunited with his father, an old clown, amid the action of the show, (2) the little girl enters triumphantly in the ring with her costume of fearless heroine (who is not afraid to cockroaches) sword in hand, beaming with joy and pride ... it's the new generation of circus people which is starting there; (3) the rest of the troupe behind the scenes weeps of joy for the return of Benjamin, return which is the very re encounter of the troupe with itself. I wept because this finale transmitted to me the following feelings: despite our fragility, if we are together in the battle, we love each other, do our jobs with solidarity, dedication and love, we can overcome all difficulties and our Joy will be eternal. Selton managed to produce a Chaplin adapted to current times in the rural back country of Minas Gerais. Very talented director and actor.