YMMV / Quidam

• Moment of Awesome:
  • Duo la Vision. The performers' slow, methodical pace and increasingly improbable poses make it one of the most breathtaking acts in any Cirque show. See it here.
  • The Skipping Ropes, but if it had to be boiled down to one part, it would be where the music slows down to a melancholy, Italian themed aria, and the group walks around in a circle while taking turns to jump the rope in front of them. It sounds silly, but it's just so awesome.
• Nightmare Fuel: A headless stranger, the ominous chanting of a chorus taking up Zoe's sad melody...yeah, there's a bit of this in the opening scene, in tandem with a bit of tearjerking.
• One-Scene Wonder: The minor character Boum-Boum, with his intimidating appearance and memorable scream, is very much this — and the most recent release of the soundtrack has his picture on the cover.
• Recycled Script: The current clown acts — a "date" in a rickety "car" and a "film shoot" — were originally from Nouvelle Experience.
• Signature Song: "Let Me Fall" has receive a larger amount of notoriety, having been prominently featured in both Delirium and the Anniversary event Midnight Sun.
• Tear Jerker:
  • The opening sequences, "O", and Corteo have deeply moving music, and on top of that, in the last example it's for a gathering for the dead protagonist (the show is his deathdream as he ascends to Heaven).
  • * Another "O" moment is the "wedding" transition: A bevy of cheery brides and grooms cavort onstage until the music to the melancholy "Nostalgie" kicks in, the lights change, and a woman pushing a laundry cart takes the veils from each bride and tosses them in the cart as the dancers grow still. Combined with the business in the foreground between the Little Dancer and the two men who have fallen for her — Guifa and the slightly grotesque Eugen — climaxing when Guifa gives Eugen back the flower he hopes to woo her with, it's so sad, leading to a most welcome bit of Mood Whiplash when the mood revives for the Russian Swings act for the couples.
  • The curtain call: Most of the cast emerges as the Chienne Blanches — who are perpetually dressed in white, with face-concealing cowls, as befits the title's Latin meaning of faceless passerby. And then they remove them.