What can American cinema do? How to explain its undeniable role in the history of cinema? Indissociable from geopolitics in the 20th century, this national preponderance for the industrial art demands that we regularly linger on it to see what it is all about - in terms of the present as much as the past.
In the world of the circus, a series of intertwined plots unfold between beings described as "monsters". Behind this spectacle of the horrific, in the strict sense of the term, emerges a portrait that is sometimes moving, sometimes accusatory. A film that stands out from the ordinary, that pushes the limits of the fantastic, a shattering masterpiece, in short, a cult film.
Tod Browning
Tod Browning is a american film director, film actor, screenwriter, vaudeville performer, and carnival sideshow and circus entertainer. He directed a number of films of various genres between 1915 and 1939, but was primarily known for horror films, and was often cited in the trade press as the Edgar Allan Poe of cinema. Browning's career spanned the silent film and sound film eras. He is known as the director of Dracula (1931), Freaks (1932), and his silent film collaborations with Lon Chaney and Priscilla Dean.
