Driver tries to keep up with this anarchic figure, much like Panza, and his deadpan face works well with Gilliam’s wacky comedy. He tracks down his original cast, only to find that the old guy playing the lead (Pryce) was tipped over into a state of Quixotic delusion by the experience and now spends his days trying to right wrongs. In this postmodern reading of the story, he is a jaded TV ad director who stumbles across a DVD of his first film, a low-budget version of Quixote using non-professionals. In Terry Gilliam’s film version of Don Quixote (which reached screens two years ago after decades of production delays), Driver plays loyal squire Sancho Panza to Jonathan Pryce’s gallant Quixote in probably the most counterintuitive casting of his career. Driver plays it with overwhelming sincerity and force. They marry, have a baby and at first everything is wonderful – but then she begins to show symptoms of postpartum psychosis and Jude has an agonising dilemma: if and when to take the baby away from her. He plays Jude, a young man who meets his future wife Mina (Rohrwacher) in New York when they are bizarrely locked in a restaurant toilet together.
The movie might be flawed, but Driver’s performance (playing opposite the similarly excellent Alba Rohrwacher) is outstanding, winning him the Volpi Cup at the Venice film festival.
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