Movie

Don Quixote

1992 · 116 min

A dreamy, patchwork drift through sunlit Spain, equal parts comic and mournful, with the seams of its unfinished making always showing.

Tagline: One man scorned and covered with scars still strove with his last ounce of courage to reach the unreachable stars and the world will be better for this.
Overview: A posthumous 1992 reconstruction of Orson Welles’s long-unfinished Don Quixote project, edited by Jesús Franco from footage shot between 1957 and 1972, following Don Quixote and Sancho Panza as they wander modern Spain in pursuit of chivalric ideals. (Note: This version represents a later editorial assembly, not a film completed by Welles.)
How it feels: Melancholic, whimsical, earnest and absurd. Slow-burning and demanding.
About: Identity, obsession, madness, freedom
Content: Mild violence and language. No gore or sexual content.
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Tone: melancholicstrength 2 of 3
whimsicalstrength 2 of 3
earneststrength 2 of 3
absurdstrength 1 of 3
Pacing: slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: identity
obsession
madness
freedom
friendship
Places: countryside
road trip
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: nonlinear
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence mild
Sex none