DAAAAAALÍ - the newest outrageously absurd comedy from Quentin Dupieux on Surrealist painter Salvador Dalí
Oct 8 thru 10
Tue to Thu 4:30, 6:15
Dir. Quentin Dupieux - 2024 - 77m - France - In French with English subtitles
For journalist Judith Rochant (Anaïs Demoustier) the assignment to interview renowned artist Salvador Dalí is a great career opportunity–if only he would agree to sit still and answer a single question. What begins as a 15-minute conversation blows up into a bonafide cinematographic documentary portrait, provided the world’s most enormous cameras are available to film it. As Judith’s interview is delayed, detoured, disrupted, and deranged by Dalí’s inexhaustible self-regard, the journalist finds herself becoming the subject. The legendary painter’s artistry and ego know no bounds, and Daaaaaalí! dutifully casts no less than five actors (Edouard Baer, Jonathan Cohen, Giles Lellouche, Pio Marmaï, and Didier Flamand) as Salvador Dalí in this prismatic portrait. The prolific Quentin Dupieux’s latest comedy is an exercise in dream logic and surrealist homage, with the rug pulled out from under you again and again before you even manage to get up off the floor.
“Quentin Dupieux’s daffy homage to the famed surrealist is delightful.” - Jessica Kiang, Variety
“As one of the 21st century’s most prominent surrealists, Dupieux was the perfect man to lead audiences on a victory lap through 20th-century surrealism’s greatest hits.” - Christian Zilko, IndieWire
“Quentin Dupieux is completely insane; and this is meant as an extreme compliment. There is literally nothing else like this out there.” - Sarah Manvel, Critic’s Notebook
“As if Luis Buñuel directed a script by Monty Python” - Jonathan Bleasdale, Sight & Sound
“A comical metaphysical roller coaster. A cinematic experience that both disorients and delights.” - Martin Kudlac, Screen Anarchy
“At the time of year where every other film is a biopic chasing prestige respectability, we are lucky to have Quentin Dupieux, the prolific, serious-minded, silly filmmaker perfectly positioned to take a sledgehammer to the genre. The stupidest film I have loved this year.” - Alistair Ryder, The Film Stage
“An endlessly creative vision of art and cinema. Quentin Dupieux’s eye for the beautiful & absurd finds its perfect subject in the Spanish artist” - Elena Lazic, The Playlist