Terry Gilliam's long-gestating adventure comedy adapted from Miguel de Cervantes's classic novel. A cynical advertising man (Adam Driver), finds himself...
Terry Gilliam's long-gestating adventure comedy adapted from Miguel de Cervantes's classic novel. A cynical advertising man (Adam Driver), finds himself trapped in the outrageous delusions of an old Spanish shoe-maker (Jonathan Pryce) who believes himself to be Don Quixote.
Former Monty Python Gilliam started work on the film in 1989 but failed to get it across the line, most famously with his abandoned 1998 production - the subject of the excellent documentary Lost in La Mancha. Johnny Depp, Ewan McGregor and Jack O'Connell have all been attached to star over the years. Reportedly, it was Adam Driver's interest in the role that finally helped secure funding for the film.
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66 %130 reviewsRotten Tomatoes® rating
60 %532 reviewsAudience score rating
"Terry Gilliam’s latest announces itself as a movie “25 years in the making and unmaking”, a self-congratulatory bit of text alluding to its tortured path to the screen. The results could well be the director’s best film in a few decades, but that’s more an indicator of his late-career drop off than any great quality here."
Flicks"There's enough of a germ of something in Don Quixote that you find yourself shaking your head by its climax, wondering, wait, what were we talking about again?"
Vulture"If anything, it's what the director's fans most feared: a lumbering, confused, and cacophonous mess."
Variety"Even if it doesn't always come together, it does entertain, bearing all the hallmarks of Gilliam's gleefully barmiest projects."
Time Out"What a dull place the world would be without Terry Gilliam."
The Guardian"Despite periods of biting comedy and some delightful old-school production heft, this is a project that would have been better left to wither on the vine."
New Zealand Herald"It is an intensely personal piece of filmmaking, a movie shot through with sneaky, unruly pleasures and no small poignancy."
Los Angeles Times"Rarely have such brave deeds yielded so meagre a reward."
Hollywood Reporter"There are moments of mad genius here, and a warrior-poet's heart beats under the film's tarnished armour..."
FilmInkThe Man Who Killed Don Quixote | Details
- Runtime
- 132
- Genre
- Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
- Country of origin
- Spain, UK, France, Portugal
