They’ll Love Me When I’m Dead (2018)
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”A legendary director struggles to complete his final film and make a Hollywood comeback.”
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In cinema and entertainment, there are few legends like Orson Welles, the director of classics such as 'Citizen Kane' and 'Othello', among many others. He, however, had a full life of controversy and great achievements - in a story that must be known by cinephiles and newcomers alike. This documentary also comes at the perfect timing: it is released along with 'The Other Side of the Wind', Welles’ unfinished film finally released by Netflix. This documentary helps to answer, or at least analyze, the autobiographical aspects in Welles’ last great work.
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In the final fifteen years of the life of legendary director Orson Welles he pins his Hollywood comeback hopes on a film, The Other Side of the Wind ,in itself a film about an aging film director trying to finish his last great movie.
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