The Making of Quixote

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Another review: https://www.nouvelobs.com/cinema/2018051...maine.html

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♥♥♥ "The man who killed Don Quixote", by Terry Gilliam. Spanish drama with Adam Driver, Jonathan Pryce and Olga Kurylenko (2:12). Released in cinemas on May 19th.
For more than a quarter of a century, Terry Gilliam has been dreaming of his "Don Quixote", a thousand times given over to the book. Wish finally granted! A famous filmmaker (and annoying, played by Adam Driver) returns to the scene of his student film, an adaptation of Cervantes, in Aragon. He realizes that this old shoot has wreaked havoc, and the past catches up with him, in the form of an old actor who mistook himself for the Sad Figure Knight (Jonathan Pryce).

Fiction, reality and fantasy intertwine, and everything goes crazy until the final bonfire, during an incredible fiesta ... The first part of the film hangs out a bit, but the second, what cinematic folly! It's pure Gilliam. As in "Brazil" or "The Adventures of the Baron of Münchhausen", the visual magic and the meaning of the absurd combine brilliantly. Gustave Doré under amphetas: a firework!