HE DREAMS OF GIANTS
Genre
Documentary
Running time
85 minutes
Year
2019
Language
English
Country
United Kingdom
Director
Louis Pepe, Keith Fulton
Bio
Producer
Lucy Darwin, Keith Fulton
Cast
Adam Driver, Terry Gilliam, Jonathan Pryce
Scriptwriter
Keith Fulton, Louis Pepe
Seventeen years after the debacle chronicled in Lost in La Mancha, the same documentary team returns to Spain to witness director Terry Gilliam’s final tilt at making the Don Quixote movie of his fever dreams. He has tried six more times to make the film and is now 78, but no less determined; this time around there are no great disasters, but Gilliam is consumed not only by the usual budget problems but his own demons, revealed in intimate interviews where he wrestles with the question of what to do – what any artist can do – once he has realised his lifelong ambition. The result is both a revealing portrait of an uncompromising artist and a meditation on the creative drive itself.
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