For those who have not had the chance to experience a Cirque Du Soleil performance live, “Worlds Apart” offers moviegoers what would appear, on the surface, to be the next best thing.
The film opens with a young woman, Mia (Erica Linz), visiting a traveling carnival/circus, complete with the bearded lady, sword swallower, and obnoxious barker that such a setting would imply. While the notion that this sort of attraction only ever seems to pop up in stories as counterpoint (to the fantasy that follows) may be somewhat cliché, it is more than appropriate here, given the three-ring origins of the Cirque shows.
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