The Last Circus at O Cinema September 22-25

Magnolia Pictures

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O Cinema

90 NW 29th St.
Miami, FL 33127

Category: Movie Theaters

Region: Midtown/Wynwood/Design District

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Starring Jorge Clemente, Antonio de la Torre, and Carolina Bang. Written and directed by Álex de la Iglesia. 107 minutes. Rated R. 8 p.m. Thursday, September 22; 10 p.m. Friday, September 23; 7:45 and 10 p.m. Saturday, September 24; and 5:30 and 7:45 p.m. Sunday, September 25, at O Cinema, 90 NW 29th St. Miami; 305-571-9970; o-cinema.org. Tickets cost $10.50 plus $1.57 fee via eventbrite.com.

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Baroquely sinister and grotesquely funny, the latest overstimulated bout of dark comic mayhem from writer-director Álex de la Iglesia (Common Wealth, The Day of the Beast) is a stunning funhouse-mirror allegory of Franco-era Spain that makes Pan's Labyrinth look like Sesame Street. In the middle of the Spanish Civil War (circa 1937) and his own performance, a circus clown in drag is interrupted by a militia, given a machete, and unwillingly enlisted to slaughter the Nationals outside. From prison later, he commands his young son/apprentice Javier to play the "sad clown" because, robbed of his childhood, he's better equipped for revenge than making anyone laugh. In postprologue 1973, the end days of Franco's regime, a grown Javier (Jorge Clemente, looking uncannily like Judah Friedlander sans hat) has joined a Madrid big top as the metaphorically gallant common man and literally greasepaint-slathered scapegoat to a drunkenly sadistic "happy clown" boss (Antonio de la Torre, standing in for fascist authoritarianism), whose acrobat lover (Carolina Bang) would then be the masochistic motherland nursing a sick codependency. The ensuing love triangle and whimsically lurid horror eventually dilute the analogy, but the machine-gun-toting, vertigo-inducing, dually disfigured clowno-a-clowno climax alone is one of the nuttiest sequences to invade theaters this year.