An interview with French film writer Jean-Michel Frodon who has seen The Day the Clown Cried and gives a more positive view of the film.
I always found it strange that people laughed about the children dying at the end of the movie. Realistically, how else could it have ended? Frodon says in the interview:
"One of the shocking things to me about Schindler’s List is that it was made to be as much of a crowd-pleaser as possible, with several tricks, one of them being addressing the evocation of the slaughtering of 6 million persons through the survival of a few of them. This is for me a very clever maneuver."
Read it here on the Vanity Fair website:
The French Film Critic Who Saw Jerry Lewis’s Infamous Holocaust Movie—and Loved It | Vanity Fair
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