An unknown biography of famed artist : Lorenzo Quinn , focusing mainly on his relationship with lover Gala : Sarah Douglas , alongside his beloved mother : Rosa Novell, who died early and he felt really deranged and his bad relation with his father : Lukanov . As well as the time he spent in N. Y. in the Forties and his early days in Spain collaborating with director Luis Buñuel . As Dali makes two good friends at Madrid Residencia Estudiantes , Student boarding house : Federico García Lorca and Luis Buñuel .
This is an obscure Spain/Bulgaria co-production dealing with the tumultuous life of the outlandish famous painter Salvador Dali. Here there are several flashbacks dealing with the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939), death of his best friend Federico García Lorca , and surrealist recreation of battles and war disasters . And focusing mainly the premiere of "L'Age D'or", after the film opened in París at Studio 28 on October , 1930 , dispute spread about the movie's bizarre content , on the evening of 3 December halfway through the picture , the Fascist League of Patriot and other groups began to throw purple on the screen , they then rushed out into the lobby of the theater , slashing paintings of Yves Tanguy , Dali, Joan Miro and Man Ray . That's why the producers soon withdrew the film from circulation and pulled out the movie from distribution for nearly 50 years and being threatened excommunication by the Pope . And the angry discussion between Buñuel and Dali , as they had effectively fallen out by the time went into production to the extent that Dali refused to have nothing to do with the actual filmmaking , though they had previously made Un Perro Andaluz or Un Chien Andalou 1929 . This Dali 1991 provides a disjointed realization and there is also some reenacting of surrealist set pieces in Salvador Dali style . Lorenzo Quinn gives an overacting with lots of gesticulation and excesses , while Sarah Douglas as Gala is more adequate than him . In the film appears several famous artists and historical characters as Edward IV and Mrs Simpson, Jean Cocteau , Igor Stravinsky , Rene Clair , Eugenio D'Ors , Henry Miller, Picasso , Andre Breton who expels Dali from the Surrealist Movement , among others.
The picture was regularly written/produced/directed by Antoni Ribas . Antonio was a Spanish writer/ filmmaker known for directing some films about Catalunya history, such as : Victoria ! La Gran Aventura De Un Pueblo , Victoria 2 La Disbaixa , Victoria 3 El Seny and Rauxa, Catalans Universal, Tierra De Cañones and his best movie : La Ciuda Cremada (1976) . Rating : average but passable and acceptable , only for self-biographic enthusiasts .
