That way, we don't bother.
Quentin Dupieux has a generous vowel: he puts six “a”s in Dali.
For good measure, he hired five actors to play the Catalan painter, using a device that Todd Haynes had adopted with Bob Dylan in
I'm Not There
.
It goes without saying that the result is much more fun and infinitely less laborious.
Imagination reigns on the shores of the Mediterranean.
A young journalist (Anaïs Demoustier) tries to interview the master.
We hear him before we see him, with his instantly recognizable voice, this caricatured accent, these rises in the high notes.
Finally here he is, going endlessly up a hotel corridor.
Larger than life, even more crazy than in the famous chocolate advertisements, Édouard Baer has a blast and we must admit that he crushes his competitors a little (Jonathan Cohen holds his own, Gilles Lellouche and Pio Marmaï remaining behind).
Also read: Édouard Baer: “I dream of being comfortable everywhere, like a prince or a gypsy”
Dali is great.
He is unbearable, leaves the stage in the middle of a sentence...
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