Quentin Dupieux pays homage to an icon of the visual arts, Salvador Dalí, by evoking the complex relationships of the “megalomaniac” painter and the camera.

A very prolific director

To all those who are thinking of discovering a biopic on Salvador Dali by going to the cinema this Wednesday, February 7 to see “Daaaaaali!”, move on. The new film by the very prolific Quentin Dupieux absolutely does not tell the true and chronological story of the famous Spanish painter, but rather a crazy fable in the image of its creator. Nothing really surprising for this director, a master of the absurd, who seems to shy away from all projects that are a little too conventional.

A crazy homage

To produce this homage, Quentin Dupieux, who admits “to having entered into a connection with the cosmic consciousness of Salvador Dali”, called on not one, but five actors to slip into the skin of the Catalan surrealist artist. Gilles Lellouche, Édouard Baer, ​​Jonathan Cohen, Pio Marmaï and Didier Flamand therefore appear in turn in the costume of this definitively offbeat and unclassifiable man, whom a young journalist, played by Anaïs Demoustier, seeks to interview at all costs.

The phantasmagorical world of Dali

Quentin Dupieux uses the phantasmagorical world of Salvador Dalí to build a bridge between his cinematographic universe and the artistic representations of the painter. Impressionists and metaphysicians, the two artists echo each other in this comedy that is as zany as it is dreamlike.
The stories intertwine, the absurd lines flow and the magic seems to operate around this new work by Mr. Oizo – the thirteenth – which could experience the same success as “Yannick”, his previous feature film. This one, released last August, attracted more than 450,000 spectators in theaters, and earned actor Raphaël Quenard a nomination for the next César ceremony on February 23.