The Red Dwarf

Imagine a very long, clever, student-film parody of European art cinema and your fabrication might approximate Le Nain Rouge, particularly if it were complete with a run-down circus, a grotesquely lusty fat woman, an innocent child trapeze artist and, of course, a heavily symbolic dwarf. Unfortunately, Belgian writer/director Yvan LeMoine appears to be dead serious. Embittered and small of stature, Lucien Lhotte (Jean-Yves Thual) works for a stuffy French law office, penning erotic letters that the firm's attorneys use as evidence in the trumped-up divorce actions that are their specialty. A small traveling circus has pitched its tent nearby, and the lonely ...