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.

If historical verisimilitude is what you’re looking for, you won’t find it here. But if it’s surrealism, you seek…

Dupieux is able to recognize and channel the alternately playful and arrogant spirit of Dali in ways that a conventional film simply couldn’t.

It's a wonderfully enjoyable take on the biopic, deliciously offbeat and cleverly pointed.

As it satirizes fame and artistic appreciation, Dupieux’s amusing script emphasizes narrative misdirection over substantial insight.