Dalíland

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Dalíland

2022,

1h 44m,

Biography/

Drama

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DALÍLAND tells the story of the later years of the strange and fascinating marriage between the genius Salvador Dalí and his tyrannical wife, Gala, as their seemingly unshakable bond begins to stress and fracture. Set in New York and Spain in 1973, the story is told through the eyes of James, a young assistant keen to make his name in the art world, who helps the eccentric and mercurial Dalí prepare for a big gallery show.

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Ben Kingsley adds some rich color to Dalíland's palette, but given the dynamic subject matter, this is a frustratingly bland biopic portrait.

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Tara Brady

Irish Times

Nov 17, 2023

3/5

Squabbling scenes between Kingsley and Sukowa make the enterprise worthwhile, but there are too many exchanges that attempt to shoehorn in backstory and context and even more fudges, most notably around Dalí’s sexual proclivities.

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Wendy Ide

Observer (UK)

Oct 15, 2023

3/5

The great missed opportunity of this film, with its glossy, handsome design and cinematography, and its genteel orchestral score, is how polite and unadventurous it is – something that could never be said of Dalí himself.

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Jonathan Romney

Financial Times

Oct 13, 2023

3/5

Dalíland has its moments, but too often, it’s as saggy as a Camembert timepiece.

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Maxance Vincent

FilmSpeak.net

Jul 13, 2025

D+

The movie fails to garner any interest in who Dalí is and why he had such a wild outlook on life and art. If that fails, then everything else inevitably will.

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Andrew Galdi

Movie Bitches

Apr 24, 2024

I would recommend it, but I don’t think it’ll win Oscars… except for maybe Ben Kingsley

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Milana Vujkov

Lola On Film

Dec 13, 2023

1/5

Helmed by an otherwise highly inventive director [...] it turned out to be less than the sum of its parts, lacking a developed script and coherent directorial vision, dragging on to its inevitable demise — drowned in a patchwork of trivia.

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Mary Harron

Director

Ben Kingsley

Salvador Dalí

Barbara Sukowa

Gala

Christopher Briney

James

Ezra Miller

Young Salvador Dalí

Rupert Graves

Actor

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DALÍLAND tells the story of the later years of the strange and fascinating marriage between the genius Salvador Dalí and his tyrannical wife, Gala, as their seemingly unshakable bond begins to stress and fracture. Set in New York and Spain in 1973, the story is told through the eyes of James, a young assistant keen to make his name in the art world, who helps the eccentric and mercurial Dalí prepare for a big gallery show.

Director: Mary Harron
Producer: Edward R. Pressman, David Sacks, Daniel Brunt, Chris Curling, Sam Pressman
Screenwriter: John Walsh
Genre: Biography, Drama
Original Language: English
Runtime: 1h 44m

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