Daaaaaalí!

"Dalí is probably the only artist still living."

2024 1h 18m FR

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6.2

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★6.2TMDB · 325

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Synopsis

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

“Dalí is probably the only artist still living.”

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Cast

Anaïs Demoustier
Judith
Gilles Lellouche
Dalí
Édouard Baer
Dalí
Jonathan Cohen
Dalí
Pio Marmaï
Dalí
Didier Flamand
Dalí aged
Romain Duris
Jérôme
Agnès Hurstel
Lucie

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Quentin Dupieux
Writers: Quentin Dupieux
Languages: French
Countries: France

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RUNTIME

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Tight 78-minute runtime — shorter than most television pilots.

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2 / 8

MONEY

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Earned back only 0% of its budget on initial theatrical — a commercial disappointment on release.

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3 / 8

ERA

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Released 2 years ago.

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4 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Directed by Quentin Dupieux, shot by Quentin Dupieux. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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5 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Original score by Thomas Bangalter. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.

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6 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Editor Quentin Dupieux shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.

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7 / 8

CAST

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Anaïs Demoustier and Gilles Lellouche and Édouard Baer carry the top of the cast.

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8 / 8

FACT

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Marketing tagline: "Dalí is probably the only artist still living.".

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Cinephile deep dive

The take

Quentin Dupieux directs. Quentin Dupieux behind the camera. Thomas Bangalter scores. Quentin Dupieux cuts. Runs lean at under 100 minutes. A commercial under-performer on release. Produced in France. Dialogue in French.

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Things worth knowing

1Tight 78-minute runtime — shorter than most television pilots.
2Earned back only 0% of its budget on initial theatrical — a commercial disappointment on release.
3Released 2 years ago.
4Directed by Quentin Dupieux, shot by Quentin Dupieux. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
5Original score by Thomas Bangalter. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
6Editor Quentin Dupieux shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
7Anaïs Demoustier and Gilles Lellouche and Édouard Baer carry the top of the cast.
8Marketing tagline: "Dalí is probably the only artist still living.".
9IMDB entry: tt23476446 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.

The technical file

Cinematography: Quentin Dupieux
Original score: Thomas Bangalter
Editing: Quentin Dupieux
Production design: Joan Le Boru
Costume design: Isabelle Pannetier
Makeup / hair: Romain Marietti
Runtime: 78 min · 1h 18m
Status: Released
Budget: $6,700,000
Box office: $3
Return: 0% of budget
Original language: FR
IMDB: Daaaaaalí! (2024)

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Brent Marchant2024-10-13
★ 8/10
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 (Anaïs 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 Marmaï 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.

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