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They'll Love Me When I'm Dead

2018

Morgan Neville

Documentary, Self: Orson Welles, Alan Cumming, Peter Bogdanovich ...

6.9

663

Documentary Morgan Neville tells the story of legendary director Orson Welles during the final 15 years of his life. No longer the “wonder boy” of Citizen Kane, Welles in 1970 was an artist in exile looking for his Hollywood comeback with a project called "The Other Side of the Wind". For years, Welles worked on the film about an aging film director trying to finish his last great movie. Welles shot the picture guerrilla-style in chaotic ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Peter Debruge Variety	"It says more about the man [Welles] (...) than any documentary to date, cut together with such a supreme understanding and care for its subject"	POS
United States	Todd McCarthy The Hollywood Reporter	"A fascinating account of an agonizing creative process (...) There are funny/curious/unexpected moments"	POS
United States	Eric Kohn IndieWire	"An amusing prequel to 'The Other Side of the Wind' (...) It’s a sad, ludicrous, and ultimately touching story"	POS
United States	Robert Abele The Wrap	"Deeply entertaining and illuminating (...) [An] engaging hat-tip to a legend"	POS
United Kingdom	Jonathan Romney Screendaily	"Entertaining and informative as a contextualising accompaniment to Welles’s reconstructed experimental project 'The Other Side of the Wind'"	POS
United States	Chuck Bowen Slant	"[It offers] another angle on the endlessly expanding prism of Welles’s legend (...) Neville is a shrewd archivist with a propulsive sense of human drama (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"	POS

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