{"id":103051,"date":"2018-05-22T15:12:51","date_gmt":"2018-05-22T14:12:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/?p=103051"},"modified":"2018-05-22T15:13:38","modified_gmt":"2018-05-22T14:13:38","slug":"the-man-who-killed-don-quixote-film-review-cannes-2018-is-terry-gilliams-passion-project-worth-the-wait","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/reviews\/the-man-who-killed-don-quixote-film-review-cannes-2018-is-terry-gilliams-passion-project-worth-the-wait\/","title":{"rendered":"The Man Who Killed Don Quixote film review Cannes 2018: Is Terry Gilliam&#8217;s passion project worth the wait?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Terry Gilliam\u2019s first attempt to film <strong><em>The Man Who Killed Don Quixote <\/em><\/strong>infamously met with disaster. In the midst of a production plagued by countless incidents and delays, producers decided to pull the plug. He\u2019d fought and won the battle for <strong><em>Brazil <\/em><\/strong>(1985), but on the fields of La Mancha he was, creatively, mortally wounded. Or so we all believed.<\/p>\n<p>Years later, Gilliam pursued a relaunch. It became talked up as his lost opus, a masterpiece waiting to be born, a spirited example of one artist\u2019s dogged persistence, even if it did look like a suitably quixotic mission in chasing windmills. Well, folks, it\u2019s finally here \u2013 and premiered as the closing film at the 71st Cannes Film Festival \u2013 and sadly you\u2019ll be left wondering why on earth the Monty Python man even bothered.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The Man Who Killed Don Quixote<\/strong> <\/em>is a dog\u2019s dinner set against gorgeous Spanish scenery. Tiresome instead of zany. Incoherent instead of riotous fun. Charmless instead of charming. Things aren\u2019t helped much either by Adam Driver\u2019s shouty commercials hack, the lead role, whose constant foulmouthed exacerbation with Jonathan Pryce\u2019s deluded Don wears thin in a matter of minutes.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s clear enough the director would have felt an artistic failure, if he didn\u2019t get this made. The resulting work therefore feels very much \u2018by any means necessary\u2019. The movie wants to be a testament to Gilliam\u2019s manic and strange mind \u2013 but here the man\u2019s directorial craft is more giddy chaos than a master filmmaker getting his groove on and orchestrating something memorable.<\/p>\n<p>In the intervening years, the scenario ditched the time-travel element and opted for a more dreamlike, fantasy-based narrative. \u00a0This Don Quixote 2.0 approach might well be the gravest error at play, an act of self-mutilation almost, simply because the disruption between reality and fantasy is severely hampered by awful plotting and structuring. Turns out the man who killed Don Quixote was Terry Gilliam.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Terry Gilliam has finally finished his endlessly troubled dream film&#8230;so how is it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":103052,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"MSN_Categories":"Uncategorized","MSN_Publish_Option":false,"MSN_Is_Local_News":false,"MSN_Is_AIAC_Included":"Empty","MSN_Location":"[]","MSN_Add_Feature_Img_On_Top_Of_Post":false,"MSN_Has_Custom_Author":false,"MSN_Custom_Author":"","MSN_Has_Custom_Canonical_Url":false,"MSN_Custom_Canonical_Url":""},"categories":[2615,8],"tags":[1201],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/the-man-who-killed-don-quixote.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103051"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103051\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}