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  • 2018
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Summary Oscar-winning director Morgan Neville (20 Feet from Stardom) tells the provocative story of legendary director Orson Welles during the final 15 years of his life. No longer the “wonder boy” of Citizen Kane, Welles in 1970 was an artist in exile looking for his Hollywood comeback with a project called The Other Side of the Wind. For years...

Directed By: Morgan Neville

  • 2018
  • TV-MA
  • Netflix
  • 1 h 38 m
  • 2018
  • TV-MA
  • Netflix
  • 1 h 38 m

They'll Love Me When I'm Dead

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 18 Critic Reviews
77
User Score Generally Favorable Based on 7 User Ratings
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Summary Oscar-winning director Morgan Neville (20 Feet from Stardom) tells the provocative story of legendary director Orson Welles during the final 15 years of his life. No longer the “wonder boy” of Citizen Kane, Welles in 1970 was an artist in exile looking for his Hollywood comeback with a project called The Other Side of the Wind. For years...

Directed By: Morgan Neville

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Generally Favorable Based on 18 Critic Reviews
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100
Oct 31, 2018
More narratively straightforward (but also masterfully edited in F for Fake style), the documentary takes its title from a Welles quote about the fickle hypocrisy of the movie business and about his other favorite subject: himself. And that quote couldn’t have been more spot-on for a man who was most appreciated most only when it was too late.
By Chris Nashawaty FULL REVIEW
90
Nov 6, 2018
With this documentary, Morgan Neville has made a movie about Orson Welles that would have transfixed the great master himself.
By Bilge Ebiri FULL REVIEW
80
Nov 8, 2018
They'll Love Me When I'm Dead gives a rich, flavorful account of a self-destructive genius on one of his last creative benders.
By Daniel Eagan FULL REVIEW
80
Aug 31, 2018
It says more about the man behind it than any documentary to date, cut together with such a supreme understanding and care for its subject that director Morgan Neville (“20 Feet From Stardom”) seems half-justified in suggesting that his project may as well be the missing film.
By Peter Debruge FULL REVIEW
75
Nov 2, 2018
Genius, this movie believes, is real, whether it’s failed or successful.
By Glenn Kenny FULL REVIEW
70
Dec 10, 2018
With interviews, clips, commentary, and more, the documentary serves as a quick primer on Welles as well as the film.
By Alissa Wilkinson FULL REVIEW
40
Nov 8, 2018
This tricksy, exasperating and strangely unenlightening film, with its pointless fictional narrator played by Alan Cumming, purports to tell the story of Orson Welles’s mysterious “lost” masterpiece, The Other Side of the Wind. But in jokily trying to imitate the jabbering chaos of this film’s production history, it fails to give a clear, informative account.
By Peter Bradshaw FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Tremolo Productions, Royal Road Entertainment
Release Date Nov 2, 2018
Duration 1 h 38 m
Rating TV-MA
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Tagline The True Story of the Last Film From Orson Welles
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Awards

National Board of Review, USA
• 2 Wins & 2 Nominations
Cinema Audio Society, USA
• 1 Nomination
Motion Picture Sound Editors, USA
• 1 Nomination

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