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Lovely Clownettes
Lovely Clownettes
While filming a photoshoot featuring female clowns with over 20 years of experience in clowning, the very core of modern womanhood is exposed. By interviewing three women while they put their make-up on and get into character, they get to share about their personal lives, their theories on laughter, standards, femininity, the ridiculous, and getting old. It is a film about being a woman in a world dominated by men.
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“Lovely Clownettes” is an outstanding documentary that tells us the story behind the masks of three female clowns living and working in Brazil. Director Ricardo Chreem has the three “clownettes” share with us many aspects of their personal views on life: both the realities of it as well as the absurdities – showing that often times the two overlap. It feels like there is a lot going on in “Lovely Clownettes”, but there is not. It’s just a lot for our minds to process. When we choose to go somewhere and have an expectation that a clown - typically male - will be there, our minds can easily adapt to that clown's performance. However, when we are out in public and not only does a clown appear out of nowhere, they are also female, then all sorts of mental mayhem may occur. Chreem's film does an excellent job showing how the woman, all who have various advanced degrees and been doing their work for at least two decades, use their life experiences to attempt to help the bystander understand their lives and perhaps not take things so seriously. What Chreem's film truly attempts to do is to have the viewer look underneath the character's masks so that we can see the strengths and weaknesses of each woman. This is one of the biggest strengths of this film and while not appropriate for children can be appreciated by all other audiences. I appreciated how Chreem took images from each of the clown's photoshoot and through motion-graphics created a way for us the see into Mses. Cardosa, Munoz, and Conca's (our lovely clownettes) hearts. The cinematography and production value as a whole is excellent. Regardless of whether we are watching each clown up close, interacting with the public, or in the intimate setting of their dressing space.
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