CAM I Clowns

Winner of a Nastro d Argento, I Clowns is a 1970 television film by Federico Fellini. A sentimental journey shot in France and Italy, searching the trace of the great clowns of yesterday, by one of the few filmmakers that showed his love for these performers in his own films. An affection that dates from a childhood experience in his hometown Rimini, which is lovingly recreated in the dream-like opening scene. Nino Rota contributed one of his most cheerful scores. Just at the end of the film Rota s music, in particular with Marcia dei Clown, represents a perfect expressive instrument for Fellini that, in this way, stages Il funerale dei Clown, in which contents are antithetical to form. The tragic comic takes on more and more exaggerated and touching characteristics, accompanied by the time of music perfectly close to gestures, but not covering the tender and languid feeling of melancholy that is intimate and innate in every clown.