self-indulgent but great film about the famous Surrealist artist

Curated by Jason Forrest

Total Runtime: 0:30:36

This garish, glorious ode to the self-indulgence and absorption of the great, the limitless, the eternal Dalí is the only motion picture to capture the true essence of the painting, sculpture and public persona of Catalonia's most bizarre and prophetic export. The inspirations of his paintings are explored, their forms are examined in motion and they are granted a limited context, replete with an expiration date; the sculptures are utilized for post-Catholic ritual and coastal fashion show alike; the man himself positions his body and voice in an exhibition of otherworldly antics. Dalí capers! Dalí lectures! Dalí realizes the nature of his own culture and humanity in a selective rejection of its limitations and a celebration of all that has characterized the Mediterranean entire - and the peculiar genius of the Catalan in particular. Welles voices the hyperbolic, ingratiating narrative in perfect deadpan, providing a skewered straight man in counterpoint to the prancing subject. It is better to recommend this film without reservation than to attempt to describe the enormity of its visuals. Suffice to say, this is the only true Dalían film, presented in both American and Dalían English, imbued with all the striking color, inexplicable sights and magnificent intent of the Dalían oeuvre. Accessible and unaccountable, regal and common, hilarious and somber: sixty minutes of unimpeded Dalí shot for television broadcast in the pivotal year of nineteen hundred and seventy

Salvador Dali - A Soft Self Portrait

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