For all the potential promise of such an intriguing historical figure, 'Dalíland,' starring Ben Kingsley and Ezra Miller, is, unfortunately, a by-the-numbers biopic not up to the task. Our TIFF22 review:
The late surrealist artist Salvador Dalí was many things. He was a painter, a filmmaker, and, especially in his later years, the center of social attention in New York City. It is in this 1973 world where director Mary Harron’s Dalíland primarily sets itself as we observe an older Dalí through the eyes of a young gallery assistant named James .
Much of this stems from what we get to learn about James which, most bizarrely, proves to be very little. He serves as a blank canvas, a surrogate of sorts for the audience that was not actually himself real. While this isn’t the first film to create a character out of nothing to provide an outsider’s perspective, rarely has it been one that is so superficial.
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