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FREAKS
Cinema Arts Centre - Cinema 1
Fri, May 2 9:30 PM
Night
Owl Cinema
Tod Browning’s FREAKS
Friday, May 2nd at 9:30 PM
$16 Public | $10 Members
The most transgressive film produced by a major American studio in the 1930s, Tod Browning’s crowning achievement has
haunted the margins of cinema for nearly one hundred years. An unforgettable
cast of real-life sideshow performers portray the entertainers in a traveling
circus who, shunned by mainstream society, live according to their own code—one
of radical acceptance for the fellow oppressed and, as the show’s beautiful but
cruel trapeze artist learns, of terrifying retribution for those who cross
them. Received with revulsion by viewers upon its initial release, Freaks permanently
damaged Browning’s career but can now be seen for what it is: an audacious cry
for understanding and a singular experience of nightmarish, almost avant-garde
power. (1932, 62 mins)
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