06-05-2018, 07:31 PM
(This post was last modified: 06-05-2018, 07:38 PM by bruttenholm.)
Please note that the trials and tribulations with Paulo Branco never said anything about his rights over the distribution of the film (and moreover the international distribution). It's just Branco who said that and let that rumor grow to frighten distributors and have some leverage but the rulings were about the repartition of the film's profit, that's all. Even if Branco wins this ruling, it would just mean he'll be given some money from the producers.
In other news, the film has now left my cinema, it really didn't make a splash here in France, sadly. I guess there were several factors at play : bad reviews from jaded critics, a marketing campaign which arrived too late and was hampered by the Branco situation, and cinema screens clogged up with Deadpool and Avengers and Star Wars...
Anyway, the famous french cinema magazine Positif has a glowing review of the film in its new issue (the magazine is published monthly so they just reviewed the film in the june issue)... Allociné has a quote from the article :
http://www.allocine.fr/film/fichefilm-13...ew40059327
"The Man Who Killed Don Quixote" offers a cinematic spectacle totally in line with the idiosyncrasy of Gilliam's imagination. This film is a real claim of his "auteurism" in the most honorable sense of the word."
In other news, the film has now left my cinema, it really didn't make a splash here in France, sadly. I guess there were several factors at play : bad reviews from jaded critics, a marketing campaign which arrived too late and was hampered by the Branco situation, and cinema screens clogged up with Deadpool and Avengers and Star Wars...
Anyway, the famous french cinema magazine Positif has a glowing review of the film in its new issue (the magazine is published monthly so they just reviewed the film in the june issue)... Allociné has a quote from the article :
http://www.allocine.fr/film/fichefilm-13...ew40059327
"The Man Who Killed Don Quixote" offers a cinematic spectacle totally in line with the idiosyncrasy of Gilliam's imagination. This film is a real claim of his "auteurism" in the most honorable sense of the word."