Daaaaaali!

Daaaaaali! is a 2023 French comedy film written and directed by Quentin Dupieux.[3] It has been described as a "real fake biopic" about the surrealist artist Salvador Dalí.[4]

Daaaaaali!
Directed byQuentin Dupieux
Written byQuentin Dupieux
Produced by
  • Mathieu Verhaeghe
  • Thomas Verhaeghe
Starring
CinematographyQuentin Dupieux[1]
Edited byQuentin Dupieux[1]
Music byThomas Bangalter[1]
Production
companies
Distributed byDiaphana Distribution
Release dates
  • 7 September 2023 (2023-09-07) (Venice)
  • 2024 (2024) (France)
Running time
79 minutes[1]
CountryFrance
LanguageFrench
Budget€6.7 million[2]

The film premiered out of competition at the 80th Venice International Film Festival,[5] and is scheduled to be theatrically released in 2024.

Plot

A French journalist meets with Spanish surrealist artist Salvador Dalí on multiple occasions for an unproductive documentary project.[3]

Cast

Production

The film was produced by Thomas and Mathieu Verhaeghe through Atelier de Production, in co-production with France 3 Cinéma.[3]

On 8 November 2022, Dupieux announced on his Instagram account that principal photography for the film had commenced. The post also revealed a cast including Anaïs Demoustier, Édouard Baer, Gilles Lellouche, Pio Marmaï, Jonathan Cohen, Hakim Jemili, Agnès Hurstel, Jérôme Niel, Marc Fraize and Didier Flamand.[2] Alain Chabat and Pierre Niney were planned as cast members but were ultimately unavailable.[7] Dalí will be portrayed by multiple actors throughout the film.[8] Shooting took place in the Parisian suburb of Saint-Cloud, the south of France, and finally in Spain, where a house on the Costa Brava was staged for the film to evoke Dalí's house in Portlligat. In the Spanish desert, Dupieux also filmed tableaux vivants inspired by two paintings by Dalí: Necrophilic Fountain Flowing from a Grand Piano (1932) and The Average Fine and Invisible Harp (1932).[7][9] After six weeks, filming officially wrapped on 23 December 2022.[3]

In August 2023, it was confirmed that Thomas Bangalter, formerly of Daft Punk, had composed the score for the film.[10]

Release

Daaaaaali! was selected to be screened out of competition at the 80th Venice International Film Festival,[11] where it had its world premiere on 7 September 2023.[1] International sales are handled by Kinology.[3] The film was originally scheduled to be theatrically released on 1 November 2023, but was postponed by Diaphana Distribution to spring 2024.[12]

Reception

Critical response

On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 100% based on 6 reviews, with an average rating of 7.3/10.[13]

References
  1. "Daaaaaali!". La Biennale di Venezia. Retrieved 26 August 2023.
  2. Bardinet, Elodie (8 November 2022). "Quentin Dupieux démarre le tournage de son 12e film, Daaaaaali !". Première (in French). Retrieved 26 August 2023.
  3. Lemercier, Fabien (26 December 2022). "The final clapperboard slams on Quentin Dupieux's Daaaaaali !". Cineuropa. Retrieved 26 August 2023.
  4. Carpentier, Laurent (5 August 2023). "Quentin Dupieux, réalisateur de Yannick : "Devenir professionnel, c'est ma hantise"". Le Monde (in French). Retrieved 2 September 2023.
  5. "Out of Competition". La Biennale di Venezia. Retrieved 26 August 2023.
  6. Bleasdale, John (7 September 2023). "Daaaaaali!: it's as if Luis Buñuel directed a script by Monty Python". Sight and Sound. BFI. Retrieved 7 September 2023.
  7. Bindé, Joséphine (15 March 2023). "Un biopic fou de Dalí avec (entre autres) Gilles Lellouche et Jonathan Cohen bientôt en salles". Beaux Arts Magazine (in French). Retrieved 26 August 2023.
  8. Wiseman, Andreas; Goodfellow, Melanie (8 November 2022). "'Daaaaaali!': Pierre Niney, Anaïs Demoustier, Gilles Lellouche & Alain Chabat Among All-Star French Cast For Quentin Dupieux Pic, Filming Underway". Deadline. Retrieved 26 August 2023.
  9. Morice, Jacques (26 January 2023). "L'envers des décors de "Daaaaaali !", le futur biopic forcément surréaliste de Quentin Dupieux". Télérama (in French). Retrieved 26 August 2023.
  10. "Thomas Bangalter, ex-Daft Punk, a composé la musique du prochain film de Quentin Dupieux". BFMTV (in French). Retrieved 6 September 2023.
  11. Tartaglione, Nancy (25 July 2023). "Venice Film Festival Lineup: Mann, Lanthimos, Fincher, DuVernay, Cooper, Besson, Coppola, Hamaguchi In Competition; Polanski, Allen, Anderson, Linklater Out Of Competition – Full List". Deadline. Retrieved 9 August 2023.
  12. "Les line-ups s'ajustent chez les distributeurs". boxofficepro.fr (in French). 26 June 2023. Retrieved 26 July 2023.
  13. "Daaaaaali!". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 29 September 2023.
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