Daaaaaali! is not a biopic of the Spanish painter but a tribute to his genius and his madness. The two actors each play one of the Dali imagined by the filmmaker Quentin Dupieux.

They did not meet on the set but Le Figaro brought them together for an interview. “If we want to come across as great actors, we shouldn't do it on demand... We're going to get yelled at by DupieUX,” says Baer.