"History teaches us to beware of the excitation of the liberated and the injustices that often accompany their righteous thirst for justice."

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It's a sign of this film's greatness that the enormous sadness that accompanies the final leave-taking of the circus interior is a good deal more than the conclusion of an unpretentious evening's entertainments; it's a sublime and awesome coda to the career of one of this century's greatest artists.

— Jonathan Rosenbaum