The Other Side of the Wind

The Other Side of the Wind

2018 · 122 min · EN · R · 6.7 (243 votes)
Dir. Orson Welles · Starring John Huston, Oja Kodar, Peter Bogdanovich, Susan Strasberg, Norman Foster, Robert Random · Music Michel Legrand

“40 years in the making.”

Drama

At a media-swamped party to celebrate his seventieth birthday and screen his avant-garde film-in-progress, a legendary but jaded Hollywood director is faced both with voracious fans and unsettling questions about what became of his lead actor.

VIBE

A dizzying, self-aware plunge into the ego and artistry of a legendary director. It feels like stumbling through a chaotic Hollywood party, where genius and delusion collide in a haze of smoke and ambition.

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