Review by Mark Longden
A French director, whose stated aim was to make a movie like the beloved Italian comedies of his youth, goes to the USA and makes a combination of every early Spike Lee movie. It’s an interesting stew of influences, but is it any good?
Almost all of Nola Circus is set on a street corner in New Orleans, a quiet backwater far from Bourbon Street. Will (Martin Bradford, The Free State Of Jones) owns a barber’s shop that also contains a cupcake shop; he sort of feuds with the barber’s shop across the road, run by Marvin the Scissors (British comedian Vas Blackwood). Marvin has his underlings, Happy the Big Ears and Con the Anaconda, and a girlfriend, Karen (Kamille McCuin), who sells “pills” to the local ne’er-do-wells. Will is in a relationship with the beautiful Nola (Jessica Morali), but Nola’s...
A French director, whose stated aim was to make a movie like the beloved Italian comedies of his youth, goes to the USA and makes a combination of every early Spike Lee movie. It’s an interesting stew of influences, but is it any good?
Almost all of Nola Circus is set on a street corner in New Orleans, a quiet backwater far from Bourbon Street. Will (Martin Bradford, The Free State Of Jones) owns a barber’s shop that also contains a cupcake shop; he sort of feuds with the barber’s shop across the road, run by Marvin the Scissors (British comedian Vas Blackwood). Marvin has his underlings, Happy the Big Ears and Con the Anaconda, and a girlfriend, Karen (Kamille McCuin), who sells “pills” to the local ne’er-do-wells. Will is in a relationship with the beautiful Nola (Jessica Morali), but Nola’s...
- 4/21/2017
- by Movie Geeks
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
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