French filmmaker Quentin Dupieux signs a delicious homage to Salvador Dalí, with accents of Buñuel. In Daaaaaalí!, the famous Spanish painter is alternately, and sometimes in the same scene, played by four actors (Édouard Baer, Jonathan Cohen, Pio Marmaï and Gilles Lellouche). This surrealist delirium around Dalí – who considered his personality to be his masterpiece – is produced as a succession of mise en abyme, each more fanciful than the last.
Judith, a former pharmacist who became a journalist overnight (Anaïs Demoustier), plans to interview the great master, whom she admires, for a magazine in the mid-1980s. But Dalí, who does not suffer from false humility and speaks of himself in the third person, abruptly leaves the interview when he notices that there is no camera to film him. Judith therefore convinces a producer (Romain Duris) to provide her with a film crew, and Dalí to give her a second chance.
Then begins a hunt for a wacky and funny interview. Will it take place? And who leads it? What’s really going on? What is real and what is fantasy? The decadent dream that a priest tells the painter at an evening, the dream within the dream, or the dream within the dream within the dream?
When we know the work of the prolific filmmaker from Suedeof Yannick and of Smoking makes you cough – which presented ten days ago, at the opening of the Cannes Film Festival, The second act –, we are not surprised by this incredible adventure which unfolds in layers of irresistible absurdity. We leave the cinema with a smile on our lips, our heads full of wildly delicious images, humming the musical theme (by Thomas Bangalter, ex-Daft Punk) of this friendly cinematic UFO.
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Comedy
Daaaaaalí!
Quentin Dupieux
With Anaïs Demoustier, Edouard Baer, Gilles Lellouche
1:18 a.m.
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