Daaaaaali!

2023 [FRENCH]

Comedy / Drama

10
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 62% · 40 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 62%
IMDb Rating 6.6/10 10 4096 4.1K

based on real person

Plot summary

A young French journalist repeatedly meets iconic surrealist artist Salvador Dalí for a documentary project that never came to be.

Director

Quentin Dupieux Photo
Quentin Dupieux

Top cast

Catherine Schaub-Abkarian Photo
Catherine Schaub-Abkarian as Gala
Marie Bunel Photo
Marie Bunel as Mme Abravanel
Hervé Pauchon Photo
Hervé Pauchon as Journaliste TV
Anaïs Demoustier Photo
Anaïs Demoustier as Judith Rochant
720p.BluRay 1080p.BluRay 2160p.WEB
715.25 MB
1280*536
French 2.0
NR
Subtitles us   cn   fr  
24 fps
1 hr 17 min
Seeds 8
1.43 GB
1920*804
French 5.1
NR
Subtitles us   cn   fr  
24 fps
1 hr 17 min
Seeds 22
3.34 GB
3840*2160
French 2.0
NR
Subtitles fr  
23.976 fps
N/A
Seeds 5

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by brentsbulletinboard 8 / 10

Unconventional, Hilarious and Fitting

Biopics are among the most common films being made these days. Some are great, some are decent, and others are more than a little conventional, following rote formats so meticulously that they can turn out shallow or dull. But, when it comes to telling the story of someone wholly unconventional, someone larger than life and the embodiment of surrealistic sensibilities, the tried and true simply won't work. And that's certainly the case with enigmatic artist Salvador Dalí, whose unusual paintings nearly always defied description and classification. He was also a shameless self-promoter with an ego the size of the planet and a capricious personality as eccentric as his creations. He often spoke about himself in the third person and spouted statements that required those skilled in the cryptic arts to decipher. So, with a subject like this, a formula biography simply would not work. Fortunately, that's precisely the thinking that writer-director Quentin Dupieux employed in coming up with this outrageously funny, eminently bizarre offering about a one-of-a-kind individual. In many ways, the film is a cinematic experiment in storytelling, enlivening its narrative in a manner as surreal as one of Dalí's works. It's rarely grounded in the straightforward, taking on dream-like qualities with running jokes, repeated but altered sequences and recurring characters that intertwine with one another in unexpected, truly out-there ways. The picture loosely follows the efforts of an aspiring journalist (Anais Demoustier) to secure an interview with her subject but who is routinely met with unrealistic, unforeseen obstacles (nearly always whimsically implemented by Dalí himself) in her attempts to pull it off. And, as the movie unfolds, it becomes impossible to follow any sense of reason in trying to figure out what's going on and where it might be headed (so don't even try). Instead, just sit back and enjoy the absurdity of it all - the very same attitude that one needs to employ when gazing upon one of the artist's paintings. This highly fitting approach to telling Dalí's story works brilliantly, especially coming from a filmmaker who has his own offbeat sensibilities about art, as seen in such prior releases as "Deerskin" (2019) and "Smoking Causes Coughing" (2022). In fact, "Daaaaaalí!" is so quirky and breaks the mold in so many ways that it even features five different actors (Edouard Baer, Jonathan Cohen, Gilles Lellouche, Pio Marmai and Didier Flamand) portraying the protagonist. And, to his credit, the director thankfully keeps the runtime short at 1:18:00 so as not to overstay his welcome and let the innate joke become tiresome. Still. Some might find this a frustrating offering to watch, but, if you're willing to suspend logic and convention (as you're clearly supposed to do), you're likely to find that this hilarious little gem will tickle your funny bone in myriad, unanticipated ways. After all, if the film's subject defies easy categorization, the last thing a director should do is needlessly confine him to a claustrophobic little box. And, fortunately, that's exactly the pitfall this release successfully manages to avoid.
Reviewed by genjiattack 7 / 10

The art of absurbe inception.

The Dupieux Inception made me laugh so much, I never know what to expect but it's an intergalactic foot every time, plus I love Dali! A little tripoté of actor to embody Dali, a divinatory Dali, timeless, in a film that seems to resume the end of 2001 without any limit. I won't be able to tell you what it means, but it's pretty crazy! No limit in time, logic, meaning?It is the story of an interview, in a dream, in a film, in a painting, in an interview, in a dream, in a film, in a painting, etc, etc... It is crazy and I love and for me, it is Jonathan Cohen who gives the most life to the eccentric character, it is an absolute treat to see him take all the tics of the master!I recommend to those who like the Dupieux style, the others, will be completely strawberry, as every time:D.
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