Daaaaaalí!
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Journalist Judith wants to interview the famous artist Salvador Dalí. Conducting this interview turns out to be no easy task. All attempts to do so go awry. There is an endless hotel corridor, the absence of a camera crew, the size of the cameras, the time needed to set up the cameras, everything and anything complicates Judith's work. Moreover, Dalí evades the interview, setting new conditions each time, delaying and frustrating everything. Judith perseveres, but will it ever get there?
Salvador Dalí is played by five different actors, (hence the extra "a "s in the title). All these different actors are necessary to do justice to the multifaceted artist Dalí at different stages of his life. He had many alter egos and he used multiple art forms to represent his vivid fantasy world and surrealist universe.
Daaaaaal...
Journalist Judith wants to interview the famous artist Salvador Dalí. Conducting this interview turns out to be no easy task. All attempts to do so go awry. There is an endless hotel corridor, the absence of a camera crew, the size of the cameras, the time needed to set up the cameras, everything and anything complicates Judith's work. Moreover, Dalí evades the interview, setting new conditions each time, delaying and frustrating everything. Judith perseveres, but will it ever get there?
Salvador Dalí is played by five different actors, (hence the extra "a "s in the title). All these different actors are necessary to do justice to the multifaceted artist Dalí at different stages of his life. He had many alter egos and he used multiple art forms to represent his vivid fantasy world and surrealist universe.
Daaaaaalí! can best be called a surrealist work of art, and contains very little truthful information about the painter's life. As the man jokingly called one of the most prominent surrealists of the 21st century -he is just about the only one - director Quentin Dupieux was the perfect man to make this film inspired by 20th-century surrealism. The subject was waiting for him, as it were.
Besides Dalí, this film is also a tribute to Spanish director and surrealist Luis Buñuel. Daaaaaalí! takes its dramatic structure from Luis Buñuel's ''Le Charme discret de la bourgeoisie,'' in which a group of hungry dinner guests fail to sit down and eat thanks to an endless stream of curious distractions. Like Buñuel's dinner, which is not eaten, the interview with Dalí never really takes place either.
When
- Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2024 2:35 - 4:04 p.m.Buy tickets