Yo Yo
Yoyo
Pierre Etaix
In the 1920s a billionaire is bored in his luxury house. To put an end to his gilded but humdrum everyday existence, he organises a circus performance in his chateau. He realises that the bareback rider is the lost love of his life, and that Yoyo the clown is the son they had together...
With : Pierre Etaix, Claudine Auger, Luce Klein, Philippe Dionnet, Roger Trapp
Screenplay : Pierre Etaix, Jean-Claude Carrière
Image : Jean Boffety
Editing : Henri Lanoë
Sound : Jean Bertrand
Costumes : Jacqueline Guyot
Decors : Raymond Gabutti, Raymond Tournon
Music : Jean Paillaud
Screenplay : Pierre Etaix, Jean-Claude Carrière
Image : Jean Boffety
Editing : Henri Lanoë
Sound : Jean Bertrand
Costumes : Jacqueline Guyot
Decors : Raymond Gabutti, Raymond Tournon
Music : Jean Paillaud
Production : C.A.P.A.C, Madeleine Films
Distribution: Carlotta Films
Distribution: Carlotta Films
Yoyo was Pierre Etaix's second film and was released in 1965. That year it won the Youth Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival and the Grand Prix of the International Catholic Cinema Office at the Venice Festival. The world of the circus had always fascinated Etaix, and in Yoyo he pays a vibrant tribute to it. Where did this passion come from? Etaix's personal theory was that "my two grandfathers both had a clear attraction to the circus, which they introduced to me at an early age. Then I learnt that one of my grandfathers was a natural child. I have always thought that he was a traveller child and that he has passed on his genes to me". The film was restored by the Fondation Groupama Gan pour le Cinéma.