The Man Who Killed Don Quixote has been Terry Gilliam’s passion-project for 30 years. But what was it that made the film near on impossible to make? Well, you can now find out. Blue Finch Film Releasing presents He Dreams of Giants, a documentary focusing on Gilliam’s conquest to make The Man Who Killed Don Quixote.
This touching documentary is a potent study of creative obsession. Combining immersive footage of Gilliam’s production with intimate interviews and archival footage from the director’s entire career, He Dreams Of Giants is a revealing character study of an artist, and a meditation on the value of creativity in the face of mortality.
Directed by Keith Fulton and Louis Pepe and produced by Lucy Darwin, the team behind Lost in La Mancha, the 2002 documentary that charted the doomed earlier production of The Man Who Killed Don Quixote. He Dreams of Giants features legendary artist and director Terry Gilliam, and features Adam Driver and Jonathan Pryce.
He Dreams Of Giants will be available on digital platforms from March 29th, 2021. If you loved Don Quixote, then you’ll definitely want to know the interesting and length history behind Gilliam’s passion-project.
If you haven’t watched The Man Who Killed Don Quixote then we highly recommend checking it out. It’s incredibly fun and weird but it’s also heartwarming and endearing. Knowing the struggle and obsessive nature behind the making of the film is actually quite relevant to this film itself. It creates this almost ironic relationship between the fiction and the reality.
You can check out a trailer for The Man Who Killed Don Quixote below:
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