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They'll Love Me When I'm Dead
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They'll Love Me When I'm Dead

2018 · 98 min Documentary
7.1 / 10 · TMDB

Orson Welles, a Hollywood legend turned pariah, spends his final years chasing the impossible: completing his most personal and audacious film, 'The Other Side of the Wind'. The camera trails the aging genius in his European exile, where, surrounded by young acolytes and old adversaries, he shoots scene after scene with manic passion. This is not merely a documentary portrait but an immersion into creative chaos, where fiction, raw footage, interviews, and rare archives blend to tell the story of a project that became a lifelong obsession and a symbol of the artist's relentless war against the system.

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The film skillfully avoids dry biography, becoming a thrilling detective story about creativity, where the central mystery is the very nature of genius. It portrays Welles not as a marble monument but as a volcanic force, both destructive and creative.

What lingers after the credits is a poignant clarity emerging from the chaos of unfinished reels—a testament to the artist for whom the act of creation outweighed its completion. It's a profound meditation on the price of obsession. — MovieFinder Editorial

Director: Morgan Neville

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A creative laboratory saturated with cigarette smoke, reckless ambition, and the ghost of past glory.

🎭 Cast

Alan Cumming

Alan Cumming

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Peter Bogdanovich

Peter Bogdanovich

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Oja Kodar

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Orson Welles

Orson Welles

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Steve Ecclesine

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R. Michael Stringer

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Peter Jason

Peter Jason

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Larry Jackson

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Neil Canton

Neil Canton

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Cybill Shepherd

Cybill Shepherd

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