Tino Ponce operates Circo Mexico, which journeys across the Mexican countryside in search of paying customers. Wanting to please his father and continue the family business, Ponce has recruited his young children as performers while laboring night and day to maintain the circus's faltering financial fortunes. But a growing resentment brewing within his wife about their hardscrabble existence suggests troubles on the horizon. While documenting the brutal regimen of circus life... (Full plot summary below)
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Tino Ponce operates Circo Mexico, which journeys across the Mexican countryside in search of paying customers. Wanting to please his father and continue the family business, Ponce has recruited his young children as performers while laboring night and day to maintain the circus's faltering financial fortunes. But a growing resentment brewing within his wife about their hardscrabble existence suggests troubles on the horizon. While documenting the brutal regimen of circus life, Circo also peels back the curtain on the Ponce family's inner dynamics, revealing generational divides and money worries that threaten to tear apart a marriage. Buttressed by indie-rock band Calexico's evocative score, Schock's film observes this family drama with a sympathetic but clear-eyed view of a vanishing way of life. And because Circo refuses to be sentimental in its handling of the material, the story's twists become all the more poignant.
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| East Bay ExpressKelly VanceThe real life the camera catches is naturally more dramatic and unexpected than any written scenario. |
| Los Angeles TimesKenneth TuranA marvel of a documentary, a clear-eyed and affectionate film that tells a remarkable story with both visual and personal sensitivity. More impressive still, it's largely the work of one man. |
| NYC Movie GuruAvi OfferCaptivating, unflinchingly honest and poignant. |
| St. Louis Post-DispatchJoe WilliamsAn artfully observant and unexpectedly moving documentary. |
| About.comJennifer MerinA lovely portrait of a small, independent, traditional Mexican family circus that's facing hard times. If the Gran Circo Mexico does eventally fall by the wayside, at least we will have Aaron Schock's captivating, empathetic documentary to memorialize it. |
| The New York TimesJeannette CatsoulisCirco offers a touching chronicle of a dying culture harnessed to ambitions that remain very much alive. |
| Slant MagazineChuck BowenCirco has the succinct haunting contradiction of a good Steinbeck story, perhaps something out of Tortilla Flat. |
| NPRMark JenkinsThe contrast between Schock's discreet approach and the family's stormy differences could have been powerful. But without much of the latter captured on film, Circo feels all too diffident. |
| New York PostV.A. MusettoCirco is more like "The Smallest Show on Earth" than "The Greatest Show on Earth," the 1952 Oscar winner, but it does provide a look at a unique family and a disappearing way of life. |
| Village VoiceErnest HardyCirco is filled with beautiful images and haunting moments, especially in the third act, when the family unravels as the film culminates in a final triumphant, haunting image. |
