Terry Gilliam Premieres “The Man Who Killed Don Quixote” at Los Cabos International Film Festival

Terry Gilliam, director, writer and former Monty Python member, arrived in Los Cabos, Mexico in November 2018 carrying one of cinema’s most infamous passion projects. The Man Who Killed Don Quixote, a film Gilliam first attempted to make in 1989 and spent nearly 30 years trying to complete, finally reached Mexican audiences at the Los Cabos International Film Festival, just months after its world premiere at the Closing Ceremony of the Cannes Film Festival 2018, where it narrowly survived a legal attempt to block its screening.

Starring Adam Driver and Jonathan Pryce, the film, loosely based on Cervantes’ Don Quixote, is a surreal comedy-adventure that mirrors Gilliam’s own decades-long quixotic struggle to bring it to the screen. At Los Cabos, Gilliam received the festival’s highest honour for contribution to cinema, in recognition of a career that includes Brazil (1985), 12 Monkeys (1995) and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998). He spoke candidly to the press about criticism, the creative process and the persistence required to make films that “split audiences every time.”