Quentin Dupieux's DAAAAAALÍ! Is probably my favorite film by the director. The often surreal director has found his match in a portrait of a surrealist painter.
The plot is, nominally, the story of a journalist trying to get an interview with the director, however things happen and go sideways. Actually things go surreally….
If you know Dupieux’s messing with reality then you can begin to understand how bent this film about a man who bent reality is. Then again since we expect the film to be off kilter this film is strangely normal. In a weird way this is the director’s most normal film.
What I love is the film starts off normal and then slowly goes banana shaped. The first sense that things are off is the opening bit with Dali walking down a hotel corridor and seeming never to arrive. It’s a subtle bit that takes a moment to be realized. It gets crazier from there.
I loved this. Not only is a biography, of sorts, of the artist but it is a trip into his mind and sensibility. It’s silly and nonsensical at times but it’s so friendly and alive you have to smile and just go along.
Yes I am not saying what happens. More than almost any other film this is a trip you need to take for yourself. I don’t want to take the multiple AH HA! Moments from you.
Perfectly paced the film never out stays it’s welcome, something that Dupieux's films sometimes do.
Actually the film is kind of perfect on every level.
Highly recommended- especially if you love fun films.
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