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Lost in La Mancha

2002

Keith Fulton, Louis Pepe

Documentary, Self: Terry Gilliam, Jean Rochefort, Johnny Depp, Vanessa Paradis

6.9

3,354

Documentary It may be the first 'un-making of' documentary. In a genre that exists to hype films before their release, "Lost in La Mancha" presents an unexpected twist: it is the story of a film that does not exist. Instead of a sanitised glimpse behind the scenes, it offers a look at the harsher realities of filmmaking. Keith Fulton and Louis Pepe witness the successes as well as the failures of Terry Gilliam's adaptation of Don Quixote.

	Media	Author	Review
		Sheila Johnston Screendaily	"An enormously entertaining and poignant antidote to the bland 'making of' films usually found as DVD add-ons and television plugumentaries"
		Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"This compelling fly-on-the-wall study, hilarious and heartbreaking at once, shows poor Mr Gilliam’s visionary project disintegrating like a slow-motion car crash (…) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"º
		Derek Elley Variety	"There’s no shortage of disaster stories in the history of film production, but none have been recorded with such frankness, immediacy and aching sense of disappointment"
		Ed Gonzalez Slant	"A sad celebration of the endurance of the creative process (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"
		William Thomas Empire	"Vividly showing the 'curse of Quixote' in action, 'Lost In La Mancha' is a tantalising vision of an unmade masterpiece (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"

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