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- 2001
- R
- Fine Line Features
- 1 h 33 m
- 2001
- R
- Fine Line Features
- 1 h 33 m
Summary Feeling disconnected from the world around her, a young girl (Brewster) decides to follow her dead sister Faith's (Diaz) path through Europe and discover the truth of what happened to her. (New Line Cinema)
Directed By: Adam Brooks
Written By: Jennifer Egan, Adam Brooks
- 2001
- R
- Fine Line Features
- 1 h 33 m
- 2001
- R
- Fine Line Features
- 1 h 33 m
The Invisible Circus
40
5.4
Where to Watch
Summary Feeling disconnected from the world around her, a young girl (Brewster) decides to follow her dead sister Faith's (Diaz) path through Europe and discover the truth of what happened to her. (New Line Cinema)
Directed By: Adam Brooks
Written By: Jennifer Egan, Adam Brooks
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 22 Critic Reviews
40
9% Positive
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
59% Mixed
13 Reviews
13 Reviews
32% Negative
7 Reviews
7 Reviews
Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 22 Critic Reviews
40
9% Positive
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
59% Mixed
13 Reviews
13 Reviews
32% Negative
7 Reviews
7 Reviews
Even at her most nihilistic, Cameron Diaz is about as menacing as a boozy college cheerleader.
In its attempts to chart a young girl's journey from innocence to experience, The Invisible Circus ends up having all the heft of a Nancy Drew mystery decked out in a tie-dyed T-shirt and peasant skirt.
Unfortunately, The Invisible Circus, which follows Phoebe as she retraces her dead sibling's steps from Paris to Berlin to the coast of Portugal, doesn't so much illuminate Phoebe's confusion as share it.
The Invisible Circus isn't junk. It's carefully, competently made, though with no particular feeling for technique or rhythm.
Something there is about the '60s that undoes the most intelligent of filmmakers.
When flashbacks tease us with bits of information, it has to be done well, or we feel toyed with. Here the mystery is solved by stomping in thick-soled narrative boots through the squishy marsh of contrivance.
A more intuitive writer-director could have extracted a credible study of time-warped bereavement from Jennifer Egan's extensively praised novel, but Adam Brooks's turgid adaptation merely emphasizes the book's stiff contrivances and wobbly characterizations.
User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 5 User Ratings
5.4
20% Positive
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60% Mixed
3 Ratings
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20% Negative
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User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 5 User Ratings
5.4
20% Positive
1 Rating
1 Rating
60% Mixed
3 Ratings
3 Ratings
20% Negative
1 Rating
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Production Company
Fine Line Features,
Industry Entertainment,
Nicolas Entertainment
Release Date Feb 2, 2001
Duration 1 h 33 m
Rating R
Genres
Tagline A story of friendship, freedom and fate that could only happen in the Sixties
Awards
Mar del Plata Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
