They'll Love Me When I'm Dead
These documentary scenes have a deep look at the life of that great director, Orson Welles, and present a summary of his long-exile life in Europe, absent from art. Orson was struggling to complete 'The Other Side of the Wind,' a comedy film he was struggling to complete, a new comeback after a long absence from Hollywood and her art. Perhaps he was not lucky because he died before the film was completed in a serious accident.
8 November 1950, Sioux Falls, South Dakota, USA
5 August 1906, Nevada, Missouri, USA
26 November 1938, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
16 December 1938, Tokyo, Japan
2 April 1914, Marylebone, London, England, UK
16 March 1916, Joliet, Illinois, USA
June 6, 1961 in Los Angeles, California, USA
14 May 1962, Rome, Lazio, Italy
October 31, 2018
Anyone interested in the work of one of cinema's great directors will learn a lot from this documentary.
October 31, 2018
It's at turns playful and sad. But even in its melancholy, it's also inspiring.
November 02, 2018
The movie can't help but portray [Welles] as an inspired and inspiring figure.
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.
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
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.
September 01, 2018
A fascinating account of an agonizing creative process.
November 01, 2018
Director Neville ... walks us through this complicated history with panache, combining artfully staged talking heads with copious amounts of archival footage.
November 01, 2018
Instead of exploring or deconstructing [Welles'] genius, Neville seems interested in putting it into tidy boxes.
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.
November 02, 2018
This documentary is an oddity.
November 01, 2018
The impeccably assembled production employs Neville's virtuoso touch to provocative effect.
