The man who killed Don Quixote (2018)

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	Year of first release: 2018
	Director: Terry Gilliam
	Actors: Adam Driver, Jonathan Pryce
	Country: GB, F, B, E, P
	Genre: Adventure, Drama
	Conditions of visioning: 17.09.2018, Schauburg, OV Sneak Preview, English/Spanish version with German subtitle
Synopsis: Toby (Driver), a cynical advertising director finds himself trapped in the outrageous delusions of an old Spanish shoe-maker Javier (Pryce) who believes himself to be Don Quixote. In the course of their comic and increasingly surreal adventures, Toby is forced to confront the tragic repercussions of a film he made in his idealistic youth - a film that changed the hopes and dreams of a small Spanish village forever.
Review: I heard about this movie when it was a project of Terry Gilliam and failed due to the illness of Jean Rochefort and other unexpected events. At that time (2000) it sounded like a curse on the movie. This had been filmed in the almost-making-off of the movie, Lost in La Mancha (2002).  The convinced Don Quixote of now acted by Jonathan Pryce, the lost in acting Don Quixote of Toby's first movie, the ideal of Don Quixote in Toby's mind. The connotation to Don Quixote is imbricated. I like that. We have the impression of travelling in time via the movies shown in the movie, via the costume party that has a major place in the script, via the weird situation of Javier in the village, via the dreams of Toby. And this quest for the remembered hot girl transforming into a quest for his youth brings the arrogant Toby to a human level. And like for Don Quixote the true and cruel reality remains. It is one's choice what we do and what we don't. Toby met his Dulcinea making his study film. The acting of Adam Driver and Jonathan Pryce are great. Especially Jonathan Pryce being Javier convinced to be Don Quixote and calling Toby Sancho and treating him as a valet. Adam Driver does not show much emotion visually. Some teacher prefer this to let the story be driven by the director and his story-telling, by the shots. Technically I liked the mix of different types of scenery and of prop and of costumes. This was for me kind of part of the travel through time and space. This travel is also done via the encounter with migrants, with the extravagant mecene and his wife. This way we see how Javier and Toby go through these different worlds.  I like this kind of movie that make me dream and think about parts of the story.
Rating: 7 /10