Dalíland movie review & film summary (2023)
The movie’s commonplaces don’t serve its singular subject—love him or hate him—all that well.
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The movie’s commonplaces don’t serve its singular subject—love him or hate him—all that well.
Ben Kingsley and Barbara Sukowa have a grand, old time in director Mary Harron's otherwise drab portrait of the Spanish surrealist and his muse-manager-wife set in disco-era New York.
Daliland picks up the artist's life in its later years focusing on the odd relationship between him and his controlling wife.
Ben Kingsley plays Salvador Dalí, the man and the mustachioed myth, as he contends with his demanding wife and the far more voracious art world.
A bland, by-the-numbers biopic of one of our greatest surrealists is an irony Salvador Dalí would have been depressed by. Our Daliland review: