"The Clowns"
1971
Directed by Federico Fellini

Fellini's homage to circus clowns is in itself a clownish  spoof as it invades the screen with three rings of slapstick, spectacle and sensation. "My films owe an enormous amount to the circus," said Fellini. "For me the clowns were always a traumatic visual experience, ambassadors of a vocation of a showman." This affectionate journey to the root of Fellini's inspiration is comic and magically moving, with one of the best musical scores by the great Nino Rota.  90 minutes.