O Palhaço
- 2011
- 1h 28m
IMDb RATING
7.2/10
5.6K
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Father and son work as clowns Puro Sangue/Valdemar and Pangare/Benjamin in a circus in the Brazilian countryside. Benjamin decides to follow a different path and meets several people on the ... Read allFather and son work as clowns Puro Sangue/Valdemar and Pangare/Benjamin in a circus in the Brazilian countryside. Benjamin decides to follow a different path and meets several people on the way.Father and son work as clowns Puro Sangue/Valdemar and Pangare/Benjamin in a circus in the Brazilian countryside. Benjamin decides to follow a different path and meets several people on the way.
- Awards
- 50 wins & 11 nominations
Maira Chasseroux
- Lara Lane
- (as Maira Chasseraux)
Thogun Teixeira
- Gordini
- (as Thogun)
Tony
- Meio-Quilo
- (as Tony Tonelada)
- Director
- Writers
- All cast & crew
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Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaThe official entry of Brazil to the Best Foreign Language Film at the 85th Academy Awards 2013.
- GoofsThe film takes place in the 70's. In the first scene, however, when the circus convoy is coming through a dirty road, the license plate of the biggest truck is a red one featuring three letters and four numbers. That license layout was established in 1990 in Brazil.
- ConnectionsReferenced in Palhaço.Doc (2011)
Featured review
It is a racist movie
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.
- Mauricio-marzano-531-686644
- Nov 15, 2012
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- Also known as
- The Clown
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- Gross worldwide
- $6,960,601
- Runtime1 hour 28 minutes
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