It’s a dream come true for Terry Gilliam fans: after 25 years of false starts, budget shortfalls, major casting changes, and flooded sets, “The Man Who Killed Don Quixote” is finally here. But when it screened for the first time at the Cannes Film Festival in May, many critics thought it was less a grand slam and more of a bunt.
IndieWire’s Chief Critic Eric Kohn was more generous in his B- review, calling it “sloppy” but “far from a total disappointment” and ultimately concluding that it may be “Gilliam’s most personal film.” Unfortunately, “The Man Who Killed Don Quixote” also ended up with a score of 56 on Metacritic and 61% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Gilliam knows his films divide people. Talking to Variety while promoting “Don Quixote” in Los Cabos, Mexico, the director of “Brazil” said that even with that classic movie “half the audience would walk out.”
“It doesn’t surprise me,...
IndieWire’s Chief Critic Eric Kohn was more generous in his B- review, calling it “sloppy” but “far from a total disappointment” and ultimately concluding that it may be “Gilliam’s most personal film.” Unfortunately, “The Man Who Killed Don Quixote” also ended up with a score of 56 on Metacritic and 61% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Gilliam knows his films divide people. Talking to Variety while promoting “Don Quixote” in Los Cabos, Mexico, the director of “Brazil” said that even with that classic movie “half the audience would walk out.”
“It doesn’t surprise me,...
- 11/9/2018
- by Christian Blauvelt
- Indiewire
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