The Making of Quixote
I haven't watched the press conference because I go see the film tonight and I want to avoid any possible spoiler but I read on twitter that it was a very joyous and emotional reunion. I hope that the video will pop up on Cannes channel soon.
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It's not on YouTube yet, but you can watch the press conference on the Cannes website (it's the last one on the right in the row of videos): https://www.festival-cannes.com/en/festi...on-quixote

Enjoy the film, Bruttenholm! Smile

Update #1: here's a direct link to the video of the press conference on the Cannes website: https://cdn-media.festival-cannes.com/me...ONF_VA.mp4

Update #2: Also, Ocean Films has a treasure trove of downloadable digital media for 'The Man Who Killed Don Quixote' (including high-quality photos, trailers, and featurettes): http://www.ocean-films.com/film/lhomme-q...quichotte/
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A very positive review from The Village Voice: https://www.villagevoice.com/2018/05/19/...e-madness/

The writer points out the similarities between this film and The Fisher King, and also where they both contrast.
Quote:The plot also recalls in its broad strokes the director’s earlier masterpiece The Fisher King, with its tale of a cynical, successful celeb who reconnects with his true self after befriending a troubled dreamer in whose mental breakdown he played a part. But The Fisher King’s lines were clean, its narrative straightforward; it delineated, for the most part, a clear border between fantasy visions and lived-in reality. The Man Who Killed Don Quixote is the opposite of that: a cinematic kaleidoscope where the narrative turns on itself, characters keep transforming, and symbols crash against one another. It’s a tale told from the perspective perhaps not of the fallen hero but of his mad redeemer.
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Cannes Red Carpet:


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Photo via Twitter: https://twitter.com/Ginna_Dixon/status/9...4978952192
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My review, for what it's worth :

Not a masterpiece, not a disaster, The man who killed Don Quixote has the qualities and faults of what it is, that is to say, basically, a film for one spectator only : Terry Gilliam himself.
Announcing its legend in the opening credits, the film takes pleasure in referring quite openly to the misadventures of Lost in La Mancha, most often through lines put in the mouth of the producer played by Stellan Skarsgard. These winks would be at best anecdotic, at worst narcissistic, if we didn't realize little by little that, we are in the presence of a true cinematic exorcism. Exorcism of this damned project, certainly. Exorcism also, through the character of Toby, of what Gilliam could have become if he had listened to the sirens of advertising and had become a soulless hack. Exorcism finally, and this is the most touching, of what Gilliam is afraid of becoming (and that he may have already become for some), that is to say an old fool who no longer interests anyone, an old dreamer in a materialistic world, a relic from another time, mocked and ridiculed. Thus, despite all its failures (problems of rhythm, lack of breath due to lack of money, episodic structure that works randomly and unfortunately makes Quixote disappear many times), we can only admire this film which bears on its face its testamentary dimension. Transmission, summary of a life, return on his youth, everything is there. Gilliam is Quixote, Gilliam is Toby, Gilliam will die but Gilliam is immortal since his dreams are forever with us on film. This is the bittersweet and somewhat crazy statement of The Man Who Killed Don Quixote, a film about films, a story about stories, an endless dream.

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(Gilliam at Cannes closing ceremony)
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That’s an informed and reasoned yet poetic review that makes me want to see the film doubly.

Lovely.

Cheers.
M
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Great review. Now begins the hopefully not too long of a wait for the film's release in the US (which I'm sure will be late summer or early fall).

Standing ovation at Cannes:
https://twitter.com/karenyhan/status/997950950022242308
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That picture of Terry looking triumphant sums it all up. He's won. He's finally done it. That image has so many emotions, relief, joy, triumph, acceptance, accomplishment. A happy ending. Smile
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Credit to the photographer for that lovely, triumphant picture Bruttenholm posted above: https://twitter.com/ValeryHache/status/9...8616532993
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For context if you haven't seen the ceremony, actually the master of ceremony, french actor Edouard Baer, called out Terry Gilliam, shouting "how are you, sir ?" and saying "all these fights to be here tonight" and make him stand up to get his applauses, that was a nice touch (he already had a word for Gilliam in his speech during the opening ceremony).
Actually, the clip of this moment is here : https://twitter.com/cinemacanalplus/stat...7066675202
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