The Making of Quixote

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My local cinema isn’t getting Lost In La Mancha. I’ve revisited it on DVD this afternoon. Gilliam’s earlier vision for Quixote haunts the documentary. It peeks in tantalising fragments from photographs, blueprints, tumbles out of prop boxes, part matetialises from the hands of craftsman in front of our eyes and dances in the dreams mouthed by the eclectic cast of players. Yet some cosmic invisible force resolutely keeps the elements from forming. It’s remains a horrible and hypnotic watch. Was there still some trial to endure? Some lesson to be learned?