Ember's analysis
- Pacing
- Brisk
- Intensity
- Strong
- Complexity
- Layered
- Violence
- Mild
- surreal
- witty
- irreverent
- quirky movie night
- arthouse film night
What critics said
Critics broadly found the film exuberant, imaginative, and endearing, but also messy, overlong, and sometimes incoherent.
What sets it apart
May contain story progression spoilers
Toby is a film director whose earlier Don Quixote project resurfaces as an uncanny lived adventure with an old shoemaker playing the knight.
Toby must confront how his idealistic youthful film altered the hopes and dreams of a Spanish village.
The old shoemaker's Don Quixote delusions turn Toby's journey into increasingly outrageous and surreal episodes.
Toby's central aim becomes making amends and regaining his humanity after the repercussions of his youthful film.
Films like The Man Who Killed Don Quixote, and why
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
shares whimsical surrealism, literary adaptation, and a creatively blocked protagonist confronting idealism
Brazil
shares eccentric fantasy comedy, visual maximalism, and a collision between ordinary life and heroic delusion
Adaptation.
shares metafictional filmmaking, comic absurdity, and an emotionally bruising search for artistic redemption
Being John Malkovich
shares a contemporary reworking of classic literary fantasy with melancholic humor and imaginative escapism
Movie Details
- Director
- Terry Gilliam
- Release Date
- 2018-05-19
- Runtime
- 133 min
- Rating
- 6.7 / 10 (1107)
Cast
- Adam Driver
- Jonathan Pryce
- Stellan Skarsgård
- Jordi Mollà
- Joana Ribeiro
- Óscar Jaenada
- Olga Kurylenko
- Will Keen
- Rossy de Palma
- Sergi López
Where to watch in United States
- Streaming
- Amazon Prime Video, fuboTV, Amazon Prime Video with Ads
- Rent
- Amazon Video, Apple TV Store, Google Play Movies, YouTube, Fandango At Home
- Buy
- Amazon Video, Apple TV Store, Google Play Movies, YouTube, Fandango At Home
Streaming options come from TMDB and change over time.
Common questions
- What is The Man Who Killed Don Quixote about?
- A cynical filmmaker is swept into a surreal Spanish quest when an aging shoemaker mistakes himself for Don Quixote.
- What is The Man Who Killed Don Quixote like to watch?
- Ember's analysis rates the pacing of The Man Who Killed Don Quixote as brisk, its intensity as strong and its storytelling as layered.
- Is The Man Who Killed Don Quixote violent?
- Only mildly. Ember rates the violence in The Man Who Killed Don Quixote as mild.
- What did critics think of The Man Who Killed Don Quixote?
- Critics broadly found the film exuberant, imaginative, and endearing, but also messy, overlong, and sometimes incoherent.
- Which films are like The Man Who Killed Don Quixote?
- Films with a similar feel include The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, Brazil, Adaptation., and Being John Malkovich.
- How long is The Man Who Killed Don Quixote?
- The Man Who Killed Don Quixote runs 133 minutes.
- Where can I watch The Man Who Killed Don Quixote?
- In United States, The Man Who Killed Don Quixote streams on Amazon Prime Video, fuboTV, Amazon Prime Video with Ads.
