Un rêve de cirque

These are “circus dreams” and through the eyes of our friends the clowns, we witness a festival of circus acts: a bull-fighting juggler matches his art against a set of bowling balls; a clown, half-man half woman, is pitted against a hire-wire artist; youthful tumblers fly through the air in a series of death-defying acrobatic leaps; and while a hail of heterogeneous objects sail through the air, romantic adventures take place both on the ground and in mid-air. From the poetic charm of the Cirque Plume to the imposing majesty of the Arlette Gruss Circus, from the gentle romance of Lunatic and Vent d’Autan to the trashy atmosphere of Cahin-Caha, the gypsy world of the Morallès family to the ethereal aura of Arts Sauts, our four clowns will lead us through the astonishingly inventive world of today’s circus, creating as they go a spectacle the like of which you’ve never seen...

France - 2002 - 1 h 12 mn - Betacam Digital - Colour

Director
Charles Picq
Script
Jean-Michel Guy, Charles Picq, Les Nouveaux Nez
Camera
Joël Labat, Jean-Yves Le Poulain
Sound
Xavier Griette, Alain Philipon
Editing
Marie-Françoise Michel, Patrick Faradji

Production
Cinétévé,
4, quai des Célestins,
75004 Paris, France
Tél : +33 (0)1 4804 9609
Fax : +33 (0)1 4804 7038
E-mail : cineteve@cineteve.fr

Co-Production
ARTE France, France 3, Centre National de Documentation Pédagogique