A truly bizarre Cirque de Sex French film from 1973. Clowns, Midgets, High Wires, Axe Throwers, Spinning Dildo Wheels, this hilarious Circus Porn has it all.

Seurat meets Welles. So let me describe it because you are unlikely to find it. It is ostensibly a porn film, somewhere between hard and soft. It isn't quite hard core because the sexual participants don't arrange themselves especially so we can see, and the camera doesn't particularly snoop around. People (including dwarfs) have sex and we happen upon them.  But the chance of stumbling on them is conflated with our deliberately being in an audience.

The story involves a modern, small circus that is in financial trouble. One day the owner discovers his employees gathered around two of the show dogs copulating and (with much chin stroking) imagines how successful his circus might be if they incorporated sex.

What's interesting about this is how what follows is Godardian: you never know whether you are seeing the actual circus doing sexy things or his imagining what might be. And it gets more complicated. There are lots of sexy scenes, but many of them involve fantasies that might be the result of further nesting or originating other imagined things.

Every such scene has at least one parallel one (often similar but less fantastic) that we shuffle between quickly. Many scenes involve real performers doing their act, but nude. There's lots of clowning and the whole thing is just too natural and wholesome to be associated with "normal" porn. Think of it like Gary Graver's "Private Teacher," which was informed by Welles himself.

Информация о фильме:
Название: Ярмарка секса
Оригинальное название: Sex-cirkusse
Год выхода: 1973
Жанр: Adult
Режиссер / Director: Eberhardt Kronhausen, Phyllis Kronhausen
Сценарий / Writers: Eberhardt Kronhausen (as Eberhard Kronhausen)
Art Department: Torben Bille
Original Music by: Ole Hoyer

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