Music Box Films has shared a poster and trailer for Daaaaaali!, the new offbeat comedy-drama from writer-director Quentin Dupieux (Rubber, Deerskin) .
The film tells the story of French journalist Judith Rochant’s (Anaïs Demoustier) attempt to interview the renowned surrealist artist Salvador Dalí for a documentary, which doesn’t go to plan due to Dali’s inexhaustible self-regard. Watch the trailer below…
For journalist Judith Rochant (Anaïs Demoustier) the assignment to interview renowned artist Salvador Dalí is a great career opportunity–if only he would agree to sit still and answer a single question. What begins as a 15-minute conversation blows up into a bonafide cinematographic documentary portrait, provided the world’s most enormous cameras are available to film it. As Judith’s interview is delayed, detoured, disrupted, and deranged by Dalí’s inexhaustible self-regard, the journalist finds herself becoming the subject. The legendary painter’s artistry and ego know no bounds, and Daaaaaalí! dutifully casts no less than five actors (Edouard Baer, Jonathan Cohen, Giles Lellouche, Pio Marmaï, and Didier Flamand) as Salvador Dalí in this prismatic portrait. The prolific Quentin Dupieux’s latest comedy is an exercise in dream logic and surrealist homage, with the rug pulled out from under you again and again before you even manage to get up off the floor.
Daaaaaali! arrives in cinemas on October 4th.
