Bread and Circus

2003
4.5| 1h15m| en
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One man's courage and will to break loose from the system, and the ability of one individual to bring down the kingdom.

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Wring Wrong Films

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Also starring Lars Torpp Thomsen

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Scanialara You won't be disappointed!
Comwayon A Disappointing Continuation
Stephan Hammond It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,
Brooklynn There's a more than satisfactory amount of boom-boom in the movie's trim running time.
OJT This is a amateur splatter film not unlike Braindead in filming style, with a bad taste touch of the early John Waters and early Monty Python, made on a meager budget. There's no point in telling the plot, because it's not really there.There is feces, blood, gutter and a lot of silly walks and running in this film which is some kind which displays some kind of talent, but still is by far a good film. Watchable and laughable it is, with quite effective gory details, which is really the best part, well, really the only good part of the film.To the tones of classic music and some folkloric Norwegain music, we see gory details of a hunt which is really not anything but ridiculous. It is really not funny. It is too amateurish to be funny, though it tries.Watch only if you like splatter, and like watching underground movies. The film will be valued greatly by those looking for obscure films with what you might call good ideas. Still be warned. This is a really bad movie, but with quite some cult potential.
Nikolaus Maack Some movies you watch and you say, "Well, that made no sense." And you don't really mean it. You're just saying things were overly complicated or slightly nonsensical."Bread And Circus" makes no sense at all. And I mean it. And that's not because it's surreal. From the start, it's pretty clear it's a feeble excuse to do splatter special effects. There's no script. There's no plot. There's no story of any kind. One event does not lead to the next -- that's how fundamental the bad writing is here.So what? I mean, there are TONS of movies out there that fall into that category. They want to show you gore, they give you gore. Why even talk about it?Because, in this case, "Bread and Circus" gave me hope. Okay, there are some surreal elements. Vaginas, in the ground -- people crawling out of them. The earth, in space, two legs on either side. These sorts of images are wonderful, fun, odd, crazy. But the movie doesn't do anything with them.Stuff happens, the movie ends, and it's all very unsatisfying. I suspect the script was made up on the fly. Too bad. If there had been a story of ANY kind at all, it would have made for a much more entertaining film.The film is very much like the beautiful car you would love to own. Then you lift up the hood and there's no engine. Just a small man peddling a bicycle.GRR!
Clift Bread and circus was a fun surprise. It reminded me of when I saw Bad taste (1987) for the first time some 15-16 years ago. It doesn't really have all the qualities of Peter Jackson's masterpiece, but it sure has qualities enough to make it worthwhile looking up a copy.The story is about how to avoid becoming a grey salary-man that fits in perfectly in the system from birth. In the future, everybody who is opposing, ugly, violent or just "strange" will be executed. Our hero runs away from his death squad, gets caught but leaves a message on a rune stone which is read two years later by a couple that immediately continues his struggle for liberty. Sort of.In between we get to enjoy an Ilsa-like female officer who rapes a lazy security post (the director, Martin Løke, himself) before she cuts his throat (the very same guy who had a bottle of beer stuck up his anus). We also get to see a man get his head smashed in with a hammer, another one gets his head sliced in two with a machete and so on. The gore'n'guts are all quite well down, very Pythonesque, just like in Peter Jackson's early movies. (6/10)
Elvis- This film is as surreal as it can get!! It is sometimes hard to keep up with the symbolics and the storyline. I had to watch it a couple of times extra to really grasp the full meaning of it. You are the fish as the bate gets ripped out of the water in a way. It's a very big bite for such a small and independent picture. But it has elements of brilliance and intelligence that keeps it floating.In a few words, i got raped,i liked it and then enjoyed it! ELVIS LIVES