Watching 'Lost in La Mancha' is not a pleasant way to spend an hour and a half.
Well, I guess it could be pleasant, if you enjoy seeing dreams, hopes, trust, and bonhomie whither and turn to despair and hopelessness before an onslaught of bad luck, bad planning, and bad blood.
The film, a documentary that probably started out as a simple "making of" piece, chronicles director Terry Gilliam's effort to get his version of Don Quixote on screen. The film opens with Gilliam energized, excited, and ready to begin production. Then things start going wrong, and wrong, and wrong, until the viewer begins to suspect that God Himself doesn't want this movie to happen.
Is it interesting? Yes. Is it engaging? Kind of, in a car-wreck sort of way. Is it a good use of your time? Hard to say: do you like watching people suffer?
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