Daaaaaali!

It’s not a sophisticated bit, but Dupieux’s commitment to illogical anti-humor remains pretty disarming.

If Daaaaaalí! reads more as an artistic experiment than a fully realized feature, perhaps Dupieux was aiming for that all along, a daring work that upends expectations at every turn. One hopes it’s what Dalí would’ve wanted too.

Quentin Dupieux melts the frames that separate dream, film, and reality until they become one plate of tangled spaghetti.

Daaaaaali keeps the audience guessing about it, and a lot more, all through its crisp and compelling 78 minutes.

Maybe the director’s greatest feat here is that despite the five different actors and all the background nonsense, he makes the beloved, mercurial madman the most consistent presence amid all the other, far more normcore characters.

As one of the 21st century’s most prominent surrealists (faint praise indeed, given his niche status), Dupieux was the perfect man to lead audiences on a victory lap through 20th-century surrealism’s greatest hits.

As in some of Buñuel's great surrealist films, Dupieux's work is based on the vignette, iconic moment, the crazy artifact not exempt from criticism, and happy bewilderment. [Full review in Spanish]

Dupieux and Dalí are a perfect couple that fit together perfectly across time and space. Don't miss it. [Full review in Spanish]

An extravagance worthy of the best surrealist. [Full review in Spanish]

An infectious celebration of an eccentric man...a flamboyantly outlandish portrait that is consistently amusing, though it elicits a stream of chuckles rather than a flurry of belly-laughs.