Word: circus
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...1920s, this black-and white film depicts and events of a foggy night when a circus arrives in a small European town. The town has been terrorized by an elusive strangler (Michael Kirby) who has been murdering citizens--and Woody, ironically enough, has been impressed by vigilante groups to help stalk the killer...
...housewife bent on suicide rigs up a dozen Rube Goldberg devices of destruction. Underground, an army of inept "Troglodists" (sort of Middle- Age Mutant Dingy Frogmen) plots revolution. And a nice guy in clown shoes hopes the butcher's myopic daughter will see the goodness in his heart. Part circus, part zoo, the film's milieu is a nice metaphor for the rudderless morals of post-Everything Europe. Writer-directors Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Marc Caro go in your face with baroque camera angles a la Citizen Kane and zillions ) of rude sight gags; the movie could be called Welles...
Shadows and Fog is most obviously an exercise in style, a beautifully made tribute to the expressionistic cinema of 1920s Germany. It's all here: a homicidal maniac stalking the menacing night streets of a nameless, timeless city; a circus and a brothel populated by fringe figures who, naturally, are less hypocritical socially and sexually than the police, the church and the bourgeoisie; a score that features the music of Kurt Weill; lighting and a camera that pay homage to the whole Weimar school of cinematography...
...Oklahoma. The circus has been heretwice...
Director Wim Wenders has a talent for making film masterpieces out of risky and unusual plot concepts. His last picture, Wings of Desire, followed the story of trenchcoat-wearing angel who falls in love--and out of grace--when he meets a trapeze artist in a Berlin circus. His new work, a high-tech detective love story that unfolds in a world on the verge of the 21st century, is equally improbable and enthralling...