They'll Love Me When I'm Dead
A documentary film summarizing the life of the world-famous filmmaker Orson Welles, who has been in exile for a long time in Europe. The great director was struggling to complete the film that was waiting for him and represented a new return: 'The Other Side of the Wind.' It is a novel film that was a new return to the great Hollywood after a long absence. For more than six years, Orson has struggled to complete the unfinished film.
6 May 1915, Kenosha, Wisconsin, USA
20 July 1938, Portland, Oregon, USA
20 April 1941, Los Angeles, California, USA
22 July 1944, Hollywood, California, USA
16 March 1916, Joliet, Illinois, USA
15 May 1905, Petersburg, Virginia, USA
30 March 1937, Richmond, Virginia, USA
14 May 1962, Rome, Lazio, Italy
16 December 1938, Tokyo, Japan
1941, Dubrava kraj Zagreba, Croatia/Hrvatska
14 January 1941, Bascom, Florida, USA
22 May 1938, New York City, New York, USA
November 02, 2018
This documentary is an oddity.November 01, 2018
A brisk, irreverent complement to Welles' brawling caravanserai, offering the man himself ample time to purr, coo and rue over the project and its setbacks.November 01, 2018
A briskly entertaining romp through a director's exile period that shows the flights of creativity and madness someone without limits can get up to.November 01, 2018
Neville, for the most part, captures everything with a giddy cave-hunter's mentality. He's able to show the ins and outs of what it takes to make a movie on the fly.October 31, 2018
It's at turns playful and sad. But even in its melancholy, it's also inspiring.November 01, 2018
The impeccably assembled production employs Neville's virtuoso touch to provocative effect.September 01, 2018
A fascinating account of an agonizing creative process.November 01, 2018
Instead of exploring or deconstructing [Welles'] genius, Neville seems interested in putting it into tidy boxes.November 01, 2018
At its best, They'll Love Me When I'm Dead is a "great man" biography with the emphasis on the man.October 31, 2018
Anyone interested in the work of one of cinema's great directors will learn a lot from this documentary.November 02, 2018
The movie can't help but portray [Welles] as an inspired and inspiring figure.November 01, 2018
Director Neville ... walks us through this complicated history with panache, combining artfully staged talking heads with copious amounts of archival footage.