From May 9, you can see "Daaaaaalí!" on the big screen, along with several incarnations of the most famous surrealist of all time, Salvador Dalí. Director Quentin Dupieux (aka Mr Oizo) has been very prolific lately, releasing at least two films a yea...

The film "Daaaaaalí!" opens and closes with a white grand piano (not in the bushes, but with a fir tree reaching for the sun through a hole in the middle of the instrument). Water flows from the piano, like the speech of a priest recounting his dream in which a cowboy kills him every time.

An unending dream like an endless TV interview, in which Dalí makes his endless corrections or endlessly refuses, then agrees to appear in it only if it is the biggest and most monstrous camera in the world.

The extravagant artist is paired with an unremarkable (by her own words) young journalist Judith (Anaïs Demoustier). She says she was a pharmacist, but her producer (Romain Duris) stubbornly calls her a baker. Overall, it seems that everyone in the film is a bit crazy except the main character, but even she falls under the influence of absurdity simply because the director wants it.

It would seem that Dupieux's latest creation, more than any other, should suit this absurdist story, but in fact the film turned out rather boring, although stylistically it is no worse than his previous works.

Dalí appears before the audience at different ages, with each actor managing to preserve the artist's ineffable eccentricity. It is better to watch the film in the original — you can hear the accent, which adds even more comedic effect to the character and emphasizes his difficult, somewhat snobbish nature.

The mustache and signature look here act almost as independent characters, which could easily replace the piano or become characters in the priest's unending dream. The plot is built on the cyclical nature of this dream and the interview, and each new loop only tires the viewer. In the end, both the dream and the interview, as well as the viewer's patience, come to an end in this film.

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