A good movie

Since I have always been a big fan of Orson Welles, I was really eager to check this documentary. In fact, I saw ‘The Other Side of the Wind’ last year on Netflix and, even though it was supposed to be a huge event (it was usually considered as the greatest masterpiece never released), to be honest, I thought it was a decent watch but not much more than that. Of course, it didn’t help that I had heard so many things about this movie through the years and I already knew most of what they told. Eventually, in my opinion, this movie raises the following question about Orson Welles: was he really a doomed artist or just some one-hit-wonder? To be honest, after watching most of his movies, I’m not so sure but I have never seen another director whose failed projects has generated such an obsession. Even myself, when they displayed a few scenes of ‘The Dreamers’, ‘Don Quixote’, ‘The Deep’ and ‘The Merchant of Venice’, I became extremely intrigued by these other doomed projects. Eventually, you might wonder if Welles hemself didn’t become more legendary than his own movies (with the exception of ‘Citizen Kane’, of course). Still, it was quite heart-breaking to see that, in spite of its status, nobody in the US movie community would try to help him out to finish his last directing effort. Anyway, to conclude, it was a solid documentary and it is definitely worth a look, especially if you are interested in Orson Welles’s work.