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The Man Who Killed Don Quixote

The production on Terry Gilliam‘s most recent film kept being disrupted by calamities and legal disputes. Almost 20 years after filming began, the film about a cynical ad executive and an old cobbler who believes he is Don Quixote in coming to the ...

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Terry Gilliam‘s Don Quixote film was one of the most famous films that didn‘t exist for a good 25 years. For 25 years you could picture what could come out of what seemed to be the ideal combination on paper: the visually exuberant, often crazy, never boring Gilliam and the immortal figure of Miguel Cervantes, Don Quixote, the sad knight who battles giants that are actually just windmills. LOST IN LA MANCHA is a documentary about Gilliam‘s countless attempts to fulfill his dream. Now he has finally succeeded and the results are Gilliam through and through – for better and for worse.

Toby (Adam Driver) is an ad executive who once dreamt of something bigger. While filming in Pampa, he comes across a DVD of a student film by chance, a version of Don Quixote that he filmed years ago in a nearby village. He searches for traces: his former Don (Jonathan Pryce), actually a cobbler, believes himself to be the real-life man from La Mancha, but Toby is mostly concerned with the fair maid (Joana Ribeiro), whose fate changed because of the shoot just as it did for the entire village. A nice approach, surely also a bit autobiographical. Gilliam has fought for the financing and artistic control of his films. As is often the case, there‘s a lack of coherence amidst all of the Gilliam excess. Bizarre characters appear, Gilliam‘s image of women belongs to the last century to put it nicely, and when in doubt, he often goes for the violent gag. And yet: many moments in THE MAN WHO KILLED DON QUIXOTE‘s excesses are brim-full of fantasy, a wonder of imagination and ambition, and are unique in very special ways.

Michael Meyns

Translation: Elinor Lewy

Credits

Spanien/ Großbritannien/ Frankreich/ Portugal 2018, 122 min
Genre: Adventure, Science Fiction
Director: Terry Gilliam
Author: Terry Gilliam, Miguel de Cervantes y Saavedra, Tony Grisoni
DOP: Nicola Pecorini
Montage: Teresa Font, Lesley Walker
Music: Roque Baños
Distributor: Concorde Filmverleih
Cast: Adam Driver, Olga Kurylenko, Stellan Skarsgård, Jonathan Pryce, Rossy de Palma
FSK: 12
Release: 27.09.2018

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  • OV Original version
  • OmU Original with German subtitles
  • OmeU Original with English subtitles

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