Mister Universo

Name: Mister Universo
Genre: Drama

Italy, Austria · 2016
1h 30m
Director Tizza Covi, Rainer Frimmel
Starring Tairo Caroli, Wendy Weber, Arthur Robin, Lilly Robin
Genre Drama

Tairo is a young lion tamer working for a dwindling traveling circus. As a child, strongman Arthur Robinson gave him a handmade horseshoe that became his lucky charm, guaranteeing his success—until he loses it one day. Thus begins Tairo’s journey across Italy to find Arthur and ask him for a new one.

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Village Voice by Danny King

His endeavor is one not of major strife but of minor flashes of magic.

Slant Magazine by Diego Semerene

The film eventually replaces the captivating smallness of everyday life with an inconsequential drama.

The New York Times by Glenn Kenny

Ms. Covi and Mr. Frimmel’s Mister Universo is a disarming and humane picture, an unexpected delight.

IndieWire by Michael Nordine

A docudrama that in its early scenes feels like a documentary — the co-directors have a nonfiction background, and the actors are actual carnival performers — the film plays out like a small-scale fairy tale.