Two clowns walk into an orphan crisis — this isn't a joke, it's 1939 French cinema at its weirdest.
After the death of her trapeze artist father, a little girl is taken in by two clowns.
Acting
Reda Caire's tragicomic clown energy is genuinely haunting.
Production
Circus sets that look borrowed from a fever dream.
Director
Henri Fescourt
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Released months before WWII, this captures a France about to disappear—nostalgia weaponized in real time.
Director Henri Fescourt spent his final years in obscurity; this rare surviving print was nearly lost to vinegar syndrome.
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