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DALILAND 15

OUT 13 OCT CINEMAS 13 NOV DVD. DIGITAL

Cult director) paints a portrait of Salvador Dalí's chaotic old age that's oddly conventional, for all the wild 70s New York orgies and rampant art fraud. Ben Kingsley and Fassbinder veteran Barbara Sukowa are deliciously spiky as the moustachioed maestro and his bullying wife-muse Gala, aided by Ezra Miller's brilliantly outsized cameo as the young Dalí. But filtering the story through the (fictional) disillusionment of Christopher Briney's Dalíworshipping young gallery assistant sucks all the freaky fun out of it.

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