A famed, and infamous, movie director, JJ Hannaford, dies in a car accident. He was about to release his latest movie and a documentary camera crew had been following him around in the days preceding his death. We see the events leading up to his death, the careers Hannaford destroyed, the enemies he made and his last film, The Other Side of the Wind.
Welles shot for six years between 1970 and 1976. The negative was held hostage in Paris for forty years by the Shah of Iran’s brother-in-law. Netflix funded the completion and assembled the film from Welles’s notes in 2018. He saw none of it. The result is somehow still recognizably Welles.
