Daaaaaalí!

Saw this at the Rotterdam film festival (IFFR) 2024. I was glad to watch the newest movie of this filmmaker and find it deserving the maximum 10/10 score. Following him since Rubber (2010) which I admired greatly, I found subsequent movies suiting me less and less. That is... until today. So very happy to find him again back on track.

Dahli's basic attitude seems very well visualized (I hear from others; I know nothing of Dali). Ditto his obsession with age and his looks. We see a small painting from someone else, signed by him and being sold for 10M on an auction, demonstrating how much his signature is worth, and that its perceived value has nothing to do with the quality of the painting itself.

Nice running gag with the young journalist chasing him repeatedly for an interview, failing each time but getting a fresh chance again and again. The time paradoxes around the dream told by the priest, are a nice find too, also serving as sort of a running gag with many variations, surprising and confusing us repeatedly during the story, until and within the final credits.

All in all, chronology in filmmaking is boring; humor and confusion come instead. I scored a maximum 5 out of 5 for the audience award after the screening. And finally, a friendly advice: stay put and don't run away when the credits start rolling.