This Sunday, November 17, 2024 at 9:10 p.m., Canal+ broadcasts Daaaaaaali!, a completely crazy film in which five talented actors disappear in the guise of the Spanish master Salvador Dalí.
We can't stop Quentin Dupieux! The whimsical French filmmaker has been accumulating projects at the speed of light in recent years with the release of five films between 2022 and 2024. Among them: Smoking makes you cough, Yannickworn by the excellent Raphaël Quenard, or even Good!broadcast this Sunday, November 17, 2024 at 9:10 p.m. on Canal+. A film also available on the SVOD platform MyCanal which brings together a range of very talented French actors: Anaïs Demoustier, Edouard Baer, Jonathan Cohen, Gilles Lellouche, Pio Marmaï… In short, beautiful people!
Good! is it a biopic on the famous Spanish painter?
Quentin Dupieux is very clear on this subject: the impossibility of telling the life and work of the painter thus led the filmmaker to make “a non-biopic“, as he describes it in the press kit for the feature film. “It's definitely not Dalí's life. We follow this journalist who wants to interview him and then make a film about him. But with each meeting, each attempt to make the master speak, he escapes and the film with him. It's an infinite loop, a film like an aimless treasure hunt that makes you dizzy. Dalí is everywhere and nowhere. When I dreamed of this film, I very quickly felt that it was wrong to do so. a film about Dalí but with Dalí Try. to seek a form of freedom that his work inspires in me“, he continues.
Several actors to play Salvador Dalí
From then on, Quentin Dupieux had fun – with all the touch of madness that we know of him – in having the Spanish master played by five different actors: Edouard Baer, Jonathan Cohen, Gilles Lellouche, Pio Marmaï and Didier Flamand. An artistic choice which precisely echoes the artistic and narrative desire of the filmmaker to want to move away from the biopic. “In this type of film, everyone expects performance. How is so-and-so going to play this or that guy that everyone knows? It can be stunning sometimes. But ten minutes. No more. And then what do we do? By mixing the Dalís and asking several actors to play him, it remains fun. We can't get tired of it. We are always surprised. I let each performer invent their own Dalí, take on his very particular French phrasing. The viewer can use them as landmarks“.
