A very good movie

For how long Terry Gilliam had been trying to make this movie? For more than 2 decades I guess, and, in the mean time, he had directed 4 other movies (‘The Brothers Grimm’, ‘Tideland’, ‘The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus’ and 'The Zero Theorem'). Since this documentary was made, Gilliam tried again a couple of times to launch this project, once with Robert Duvall and Ewan McGregor in the leads. A later attempt,, starring this time John Hurt and Jack O’Connell, was supposed to be shooting in 2016 but I was cancelled again. Eventually, he finally managed to finish up with Jonathan Pryce and Adam Driver playing the leads though. Anyway, coming back to our main feature, it is probably one of the best documentaries ever made about film making and we get here a pretty good glimpse of Gilliam’s dream project which he struggle so much to finish. I sure would have loved to see this version starring Jean Rochefort, Johnny Depp and Vanessa Paradis but it wasn't meant to be and, to be honest, after all these years, I’m afraid Gilliam will just make something quickly just to get rid off of this nightmarish project (and, indeed, the final product 'The Man Who Killed Don Quixote' released in 2018 turned out to be rather disappointing). Anyway, to conclude, I think it is a fascinating documentary about a really messed up project and it is definitely worth a look.