Toby, a cynical film director finds himself trapped in the outrageous delusions of an old Spanish shoe-maker who believes himself to be Don Quixote. In the course of their comic and increasingly surreal adventures, Toby is forced to confront the tragic repercussions of a film he made in his idealistic youth.
Adam Driver Jonathan Pryce Stellan Skarsgård Jordi Mollà Joana Ribeiro Óscar Jaenada Olga Kurylenko Will Keen Rossy de Palma Sergi López Paloma Bloyd Lídia Franco Bruno Schiappa Terry Gilliam Jason Watkins Maria d'Aires Jorge Calvo Jimmy Castro Viveka Rytzner Alberto Jo Lee José Luis Ferrer Ismael Fritschi Juan López-Tagle Filipa Pinto Diogo Andrade Joe Manjón Bruno Sevilla William Miller
Mariela Besuievsky Amy Gilliam Gerardo Herrero Gabriele Oricchio Pablo Iraola Pandora da Cunha Telles
Alacran Pictures Tornasol Media Kinology Entre Chien et Loup Ukbar Filmes El hombre que mató a Don Quijote AIE Carisco Producciones AIE Recorded Picture Company
돈키호테를 죽인 남자, 谁杀死了堂吉诃德, L'uomo che uccise Don Chisciotte, Der Mann, der Don Quixote tötete, El hombre que mató a don Quijote, Az ember, aki megölte Don Quijotét, El hombre que mató a Don Quijote, O Homem Que Matou Don Quixote, Человек, который убил Дон Кихота, L'homme qui tua Don Quichotte, Човекът, който уби Дон Кихот, O Homem Que Matou Dom Quixote, 这个男人来自疯狂世界, Ο Άνθρωπος Που Σκότωσε Το Δον Κιχώτη, Muž, ktorý zabil Dona Quijota, 돈키호테를 죽인 사나이, Don Kişot'u Öldüren Adam, Muž, který zabil Dona Quijota, Człowiek, który zabił Don Kichota, Don Quijote gyilkosa, Чоловік, який убив Дон Кіхота, 誰殺了唐吉訶德, Човек који је убио Дон Кихота, Manden der dræbte Don Quixote, האיש שהרג את דון קישוט, Omul care l-a ucis pe Don Quijote, テリー・ギリアムのドン・キホーテ, ადამიანი რომელმაც დონ კიხოტი მოკლა, Sát Thủ Giết Don Quixote
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Saw it on the big screen at the Golden Apricot Film Festival.
Definitely felt like a Gilliam film... just not one of his best.
But it looks great. From IMDB: The film's cinematographer, Nicola Pecorini, used anamorphic lenses to "compensate" for the digital look provided by the Alexa camera and turned to a specific set of lenses : a set of handmade lenses by Technovision and assembled specially for Vittorio Storaro on Apocalypse Now. The shortest focal length on this set was 25mm.
c'est un miracle!
also this is a FULL-ON brag and i'm SORRY but literally nothing will ever compare to watching this film at its premiere, closing night at cannes, at the grand théâtre lumière, and then seeing the entire theatre rally around terry gilliam after TWENTY-FIVE years of trying to get it made
Who knew that a poster of Adam Driver looking like a proud dad whilst flying on a motorcycle through Don Quixote’s skull like he’s the fucking kool aid man was all I needed to be truly happy in life?????
Thank you Terry Gilliam
Look I'm on record as deeply anti-Gilliam, yes, I even really hate that one you like a lot, but even by that metric this is a disorganized, self-satisfied mess made by a guy who still thinks he's an underappreciated genius tilting at everyone else's failures of intellect and imagination. It's long past tiresome for me. An emblematic moment: Driver's tortured director character, who's in the midst of a Quixote-inspired commercial shoot, is confronted by his former star, a man driven so mad (or is he the only one who really gets it, etc, boring) he still thinks he's the Man of La Mancha. When the guy attacks a windmill thinking it's a giant, Driver seems to have no idea what's going on, this delusion apparently having no context in his mind whatsoever.
"When Don Quixote went out into the world, that world turned into a mystery before his eyes. That is the legacy of the first European novel to the entire subsequent history of the novel. The novel teaches us to comprehend the world as a question. There is wisdom and tolerance in that attitude."
- Milan Kundera
"Life is not interested in good and evil. Don Quixote was constantly choosing between good and evil, but then he was choosing in his dream state. He was mad. He entered reality only when he was so busy trying to cope with people that he had no time to distinguish between good and evil. Since people exist only in life, they must devote their…
Not worth the wait. I will admit that I was entertained the entire time, and I really enjoyed watching Adam Driver bumble around in full commitment to his role, but even that got old after a while. The screenplay is a painfully unfunny (and dare I say problematic) mess that doesn’t know what it’s supposed to be. And no, saying it’s ‘surreal’ doesn’t fix things. The cinematography and production design were genuinely stunning, so it’s a shame that they were wasted on such an incoherent and self-satisfying farce of a film.
Now, I know the decades of hell that everyone working on the film went through just to get it made, but I’m sorry... the script is just awful. If you ask me, Gilliam should have dropped it and let everyone dream of what could have been. Whatever they imagined would probably be better than this.
I for one am shocked that a director who hasn't made a good movie in 20 years has, once again, not made a good movie.
Terry Gilliam and Adam Driver are a brilliant collaborative team, but the quirkiness often slips into tonal missteps. Reminded me a bit of Alejandro Jodorowsky’s last film The Dance of Reality — in that the passion for the imaginative potential of cinema and the fun of making movies is so palpable that the awkward moments are almost redeemed.
Finally...it's been 17 years waiting for this film. Feel like I've watched a relative graduate.
"Finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, his brain dried up and he went completely out of his mind.” - Don Quixote (nif),
- 2019 Ranked: boxd.it/2lsbC
Adam Driver makes out with a sheep... now that's entertainment.
An executive/director guy, who has made it big, ends up on a journey with the star of his directorial debut, The Death of Don Quixote. The lead of his debut now believes himself to be Don Quixote. As the two journey together the world becomes more and more surreal, forcing the executive to confront parts of his past.
The movie kind of sucks story wise but excels in most performances and production. While Don Quixote is supposed to be a comedic…
