
In 1975, at age 18, Phoebe is unhappy. When she was about 10, her father died of leukemia; her older sister Faith became a political radical, left for Europe with her boyfriend Wolf, and commits suicide in Portugal a year later. Phoebe, who has romantic ideas about both her father and Faith, decides to trace Faith's steps, find Wolf, and learn what really happened. She finds Wolf in Paris, and he tells her stories of Faith's radical activities, including joining the Red Army ... (Full plot summary below)
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In 1975, at age 18, Phoebe is unhappy. When she was about 10, her father died of leukemia; her older sister Faith became a political radical, left for Europe with her boyfriend Wolf, and commits suicide in Portugal a year later. Phoebe, who has romantic ideas about both her father and Faith, decides to trace Faith's steps, find Wolf, and learn what really happened. She finds Wolf in Paris, and he tells her stories of Faith's radical activities, including joining the Red Army in Berlin. Phoebe has visions of her sister, seems close to madness, and may be headed for suicide herself. It's the trip to the cliffs of Portugal that will make the difference: breakthrough or breakdown?
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| Entertainment TodayBrent SimonCameron Diaz and Christopher Eccleston? Good. Jordana Brewster? Actorly indication, stilted line readings and nostril-flaring petulance. The result? A bad day at the Circus. |
| Matinee MagazineJason ClarkThe Invisible Circus has its heart in the right place, but its hippie-dippie, flower-power motif never really goes anywhere or say anything new. |
| Mr. ShowbizKevin MaynardIn 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. |
| Long Island PressPrairie MillerThe current yearning for that more intensely felt cultural or political spectacle is barely explored and then discarded. |
| San Francisco ChronicleCarla MeyerEven at her most nihilistic, Cameron Diaz is about as menacing as a boozy college cheerleader. |
| L.A. WeeklyElla TaylorPicturesque European locations, a mystery whose successive folds will be uncovered by Faith's ex-boyfriend (Christopher Eccleston, in a ratty wig he will have to live down for years), and some heavily psychological sermonizing. |
| Film ThreatMichael DequinaWhenever Brooks hits a stride, the mystery element takes over, and that crudely formed aspect of the film overwhelms what is fully functional. |
| EmanuelLevy.ComEmanuel LevyAdam Brooks' film is a total miss, both as a potentially intriguing look into the tumultuous politics of the 1960s and 1970s and as a coming of age of a girl obsessed with her sister's mysterious death |
| Apollo GuideRyan CracknellBrooks tries to cram too much into his scenes, combining both the film's external world and characters' inner thoughts in a way that is cluttered and lacking in imagination. |
| TV GuideKen FoxIt's a far more interesting film; unfortunately, it's locked inside a maudlin coming-of-age story that barely registers. |