Man Who Killed Don Quixote, The

While an American advertising executive (Adam Driver) returns to the Spanish countryside to direct a commercial and ends up buying a DVD of a black-and-white film that he coincidentally directed as a student ten years earlier in this wacky, convoluted, pratfall, star-studded (Stellan Skarsgård, Olga Kurylenko, Will Keen, Óscar Jaenada, and José Luis Ferrer), 133-minute Terry Gilliam comedy told in flashbacks, highlighted by terrific scenery and cinematography, and inspired by Miguel de Cervantes's Don Quixote, he is thrust into one delusional adventure after another when learns that the elderly cobbler (Jonathan Pryce) who played the delusional knight fighting windmills in this film now believes he really is Don Quixote and that the director is his squire Sancho Panza and tries to help a former waitress (Joana Ribeiro) turned escort who is reluctantly working for a Russian owner (Jordi Mollà) of a vodka company.
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