07-26-2018, 06:37 PM
It's been released in Holland, the review in the Trouw is a bit snobbish.
The many complications in 'The Man Who Killed Don Quixote' are confusing, take the pulse out of the adventure
Review by Belinda van de Graaf
Adam Driver is an actor who constantly seems to be fighting with his own body. It makes him cut for Terry Gilliams's much-discussed retelling of 'Don Quixote', the 17th century literary classic by Miguel de Cervantes. Driver plays Toby, a cursing director who tries to get a production off the ground in Spain, near the village where he tried to make a student movie about Don Quixote ten years ago.
"Knight of the sad face"
And guess what? The old cobbler he cast at the time as Don Quixote (Jonathan Pryce) is still in his role. He is convinced that he is Cervantes' 'knight of the sad face', the incorrigible idealist, dreamer and romantic who sees every heroic act ending up in a farce, and became an obsession for Gilliam. The American fantasy afficionado, who once broke through as an animator of Monty Python, took almost thirty years to get his obstacle-stricken adventure film off the ground.
The reactions after the premiere in Cannes earlier this year caused the worst suspicion, but especially the beginning is quite amusing. Gilliam, with the necessary bravado past and present, reality and fiction, flutters through each other until eventually he gets lost in his fantastic labyrinth.
Driver remains as the director who is considered by the 'kneeling knight' for his faithful squire Sancho Panza nice, but the many complications work confusing, get the fut from the adventure. He is not brilliant, but crazy, the director is said in the film. You can imagine that Gilliam would be quite satisfied with such a predicate. 2/5
There's also an interview in the Trouw with Adam Driver.
Adam Driver: from vacuum cleaner salesman to world famous actor
Article by Ronald Rovers
At first he did not exist. Then came the first season of 'Girls' and all of a sudden Adam Driver was unable to get out of the world. Since then he has played the most diverse roles: from a close bus driver in 'Paterson' from Jim Jarmusch to the evil Kylo Ren in the new Star Wars blockbuster hits.
Driver misses the square jaw line of the classic movie star, but is now asked by every director of stature
Before Driver came to the world as an actor, he sold vacuum cleaners door to door, he was a telemarketer for a short time and joined the American marines after the September 11 attacks. He served almost three years before he broke his sternum during mountain biking and began studying acting.
During the recent Cannes Film Festival, no fewer than three films were shown that played Driver. One of them was 'The Man Who Killed Don Quixote', to which director Terry Gilliam had worked for about 30 years.
The filming of 'Don Quixote' is a history of disasters and failures. Were you not afraid that you would be drawn into that whirlpool of misery and would never finish the project? Like so many actors who came before you?
"Well no, because I feel unsure about the outcome of most projects, for me it's a wonder that films are ever finished." Martin Scorsese had been working on Silence for fifteen years before I participated. "With the French filmmaker Leos Carax I've been talking about a movie for six or seven years now, this is how it goes, it helps if you start a movie with the thought that it will not be completed, and at Don Quixote I just became more convinced by that thought. Terry's stubbornness: if someone continues to make a movie, it can only become interesting. "
What was the reason for you to participate?
"Terry Gilliam, I discovered his movies when I was in high school, maybe even earlier, and I remember wondering what his next movie would be and telling someone it would be Don Quixote." Twenty years later I'm on the set and I play a leading role in that film, is not that surreal? "
So you must have been nervous during the shooting?
"I'm always nervous and I always want to make the best version of a movie, because you only get one chance, I'll never come back to this set in Spain to make Don Quixote, I realized, but with the history of a I can not play that story, it's ballast, I'll set aside everything that does not help me play a scene. "
Every film is a new mystery and complete madness when you see how much time and time you make when you are making money
Was Terry Gilliam nervous because he had tried to make the film about since 1990?
"Not that I noticed, a film that someone has been working on for so long can easily turn into a dictatorship during the recordings, because he has turned the whole story around in his head for years, but Terry appears on the set and still does not know. how to tackle it, both inspiring and overwhelming, it illustrates for me that you will never fully understand your subject, that every lesson you learn is just a lesson for that one movie and that you have to start over. Well, except that you learn that you have to come on time and have to be generous to other actors, but apart from that, every film is a new mystery, and complete madness by the way, if you see how much time and time you are limited to making . "
In spite of that madness you radiate calm as an actor. Where does it come from?
"I radiate that, that's deceit, there's always a struggle in my mind, not just the normal existential crisis about what I'm doing, but also doubts about the role I play and the kind of story I tell you about it. What I do try is to play my role as economically as possible, I do not want to distract the viewer from the story by acting with a capital A. If that happens as calm, okay, but that's an illusion I was not calm when we were filming Just the communication on the Don Quixote set was a tragedy because seven languages were spoken. "
Have you yet studied the Cervantes book in preparation?
"I read the first part, finally, in high school, I saw the Don Quixote as an Inaccessible Work of Important Literature, so I was pleasantly surprised that there were also jokes and humor in the Marx Brothers. "
Star Wars has made you world famous. Does that fame influence the choice of your roles?
"I just try to work with the directors I admire, that's all, the main reason for doing Star Wars was the chance to work with JJ Abrams, what's the difference between films with large and small budgets? the one has a better caterer than the other, but I do not care that much. "
The many complications in 'The Man Who Killed Don Quixote' are confusing, take the pulse out of the adventure
Review by Belinda van de Graaf
Adam Driver is an actor who constantly seems to be fighting with his own body. It makes him cut for Terry Gilliams's much-discussed retelling of 'Don Quixote', the 17th century literary classic by Miguel de Cervantes. Driver plays Toby, a cursing director who tries to get a production off the ground in Spain, near the village where he tried to make a student movie about Don Quixote ten years ago.
"Knight of the sad face"
And guess what? The old cobbler he cast at the time as Don Quixote (Jonathan Pryce) is still in his role. He is convinced that he is Cervantes' 'knight of the sad face', the incorrigible idealist, dreamer and romantic who sees every heroic act ending up in a farce, and became an obsession for Gilliam. The American fantasy afficionado, who once broke through as an animator of Monty Python, took almost thirty years to get his obstacle-stricken adventure film off the ground.
The reactions after the premiere in Cannes earlier this year caused the worst suspicion, but especially the beginning is quite amusing. Gilliam, with the necessary bravado past and present, reality and fiction, flutters through each other until eventually he gets lost in his fantastic labyrinth.
Driver remains as the director who is considered by the 'kneeling knight' for his faithful squire Sancho Panza nice, but the many complications work confusing, get the fut from the adventure. He is not brilliant, but crazy, the director is said in the film. You can imagine that Gilliam would be quite satisfied with such a predicate. 2/5
There's also an interview in the Trouw with Adam Driver.
Adam Driver: from vacuum cleaner salesman to world famous actor
Article by Ronald Rovers
At first he did not exist. Then came the first season of 'Girls' and all of a sudden Adam Driver was unable to get out of the world. Since then he has played the most diverse roles: from a close bus driver in 'Paterson' from Jim Jarmusch to the evil Kylo Ren in the new Star Wars blockbuster hits.
Driver misses the square jaw line of the classic movie star, but is now asked by every director of stature
Before Driver came to the world as an actor, he sold vacuum cleaners door to door, he was a telemarketer for a short time and joined the American marines after the September 11 attacks. He served almost three years before he broke his sternum during mountain biking and began studying acting.
During the recent Cannes Film Festival, no fewer than three films were shown that played Driver. One of them was 'The Man Who Killed Don Quixote', to which director Terry Gilliam had worked for about 30 years.
The filming of 'Don Quixote' is a history of disasters and failures. Were you not afraid that you would be drawn into that whirlpool of misery and would never finish the project? Like so many actors who came before you?
"Well no, because I feel unsure about the outcome of most projects, for me it's a wonder that films are ever finished." Martin Scorsese had been working on Silence for fifteen years before I participated. "With the French filmmaker Leos Carax I've been talking about a movie for six or seven years now, this is how it goes, it helps if you start a movie with the thought that it will not be completed, and at Don Quixote I just became more convinced by that thought. Terry's stubbornness: if someone continues to make a movie, it can only become interesting. "
What was the reason for you to participate?
"Terry Gilliam, I discovered his movies when I was in high school, maybe even earlier, and I remember wondering what his next movie would be and telling someone it would be Don Quixote." Twenty years later I'm on the set and I play a leading role in that film, is not that surreal? "
So you must have been nervous during the shooting?
"I'm always nervous and I always want to make the best version of a movie, because you only get one chance, I'll never come back to this set in Spain to make Don Quixote, I realized, but with the history of a I can not play that story, it's ballast, I'll set aside everything that does not help me play a scene. "
Every film is a new mystery and complete madness when you see how much time and time you make when you are making money
Was Terry Gilliam nervous because he had tried to make the film about since 1990?
"Not that I noticed, a film that someone has been working on for so long can easily turn into a dictatorship during the recordings, because he has turned the whole story around in his head for years, but Terry appears on the set and still does not know. how to tackle it, both inspiring and overwhelming, it illustrates for me that you will never fully understand your subject, that every lesson you learn is just a lesson for that one movie and that you have to start over. Well, except that you learn that you have to come on time and have to be generous to other actors, but apart from that, every film is a new mystery, and complete madness by the way, if you see how much time and time you are limited to making . "
In spite of that madness you radiate calm as an actor. Where does it come from?
"I radiate that, that's deceit, there's always a struggle in my mind, not just the normal existential crisis about what I'm doing, but also doubts about the role I play and the kind of story I tell you about it. What I do try is to play my role as economically as possible, I do not want to distract the viewer from the story by acting with a capital A. If that happens as calm, okay, but that's an illusion I was not calm when we were filming Just the communication on the Don Quixote set was a tragedy because seven languages were spoken. "
Have you yet studied the Cervantes book in preparation?
"I read the first part, finally, in high school, I saw the Don Quixote as an Inaccessible Work of Important Literature, so I was pleasantly surprised that there were also jokes and humor in the Marx Brothers. "
Star Wars has made you world famous. Does that fame influence the choice of your roles?
"I just try to work with the directors I admire, that's all, the main reason for doing Star Wars was the chance to work with JJ Abrams, what's the difference between films with large and small budgets? the one has a better caterer than the other, but I do not care that much. "