The biopic about Dalí and Gala was not released, but it already generated its first controversy

The Gala-Salvador Dalí Foundation warned that it could take legal action against “Daliland”, the biopic directed by Mary Harron about the Catalan painter and icon of surrealism Salvador Daliinterpreted Ben Kingsley Y Ezra Millerwhich will have its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival beginning tomorrow and running through September 18 in Canada.

The institution informed the international press that “it reserves the right to exercise the appropriate legal actions to safeguard the good name of the artist.” The statement reproduced by the Spanish newspaper ABC he adds: “there has not been the opportunity to view it previously and exercise functions as responsible for protecting the work and image of the painter”.

In this way, controversies and tensions are added around the co-production of Edward Pressmanfrom Pressman Film; David Sacks, from David O. Sacks Productions; Y Daniel Brunt Y Chris Curlingfrom Zephyr Films: it was already unlikely that Miller would participate in the presentation of the film, arrested for robbery, according to ABCthe Gala-Salvador Dalí Foundation tried unsuccessfully to establish communication with the producers to regularize the rights.

In the film directed by Harron (The Manson Girls, American Psycho Y I shot Andy Warhol), Miller plays the Catalan genius in his youth and Kingsley embodies him in his maturity.

“In its capacity as universal administrator of Salvador Dalí’s legacy, the Foundation has among its objectives the defense and protection of the painter’s work and image, for which reason it reserves the right to exercise the legal actions it deems appropriate to safeguard the good name of the artist, of his creative activity, of the Dalí Theatre-Museum in Figueres and of the Dalí Foundation”, declared their spokesmen.

Daliland focuses on the relationship between Dalí and his wife Gala seen from the perspective of a young assistant named James played by Christopher Briney.

Born on May 11, 1904 in Figueres, Spain, Salvador Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech was the second son of a wealthy family. He discovered painting at a very young age and at a very young age he also began to study drawing. In 1922 he entered the San Fernando School of Fine Arts in Madrid, from where he was expelled four years later, in 1926, for being ‘eccentric’ and ‘anarchist’.

That same year he traveled to Paris, where he met Pablo Picasso, whom he would deeply admire, he joined the surrealist movement with a work that would be central to that current where he met Gala, then wife of the Dadaist poet Paul Éluard.

collaborated on the script for an Andalusian dog Y The Golden Agetwo iconic films from another referent of surrealism, Luis Bunueland was linked with figures such as Sigmund Freudemblem of psychoanalysis, with whose symbology his work is intimately related, as well as with the great poet Federico Garcia Lorca.

Almost a decade later, accused by the leaders of surrealism, mainly Andre Breton, for not publicly denouncing Nazism – an accusation that the painter, sculptor, engraver and stage designer refuted by saying “I am not a Hitlerite neither in fact nor in intention” -, in 1934 he was subjected to a “surrealist trial” and expelled from the movement. Dalí replied: “Surrealism is me.” He died on January 23, 1989 at the Figueres hospital. He was 84 years old.

In Daliland Gala is played by Barbara Sukkowawho starred in the film Lars von Trier Europein 1991, and was in the cast of the action film Atomiclike the colonel. While the singer amanda learwho was Dalí’s lover, is played by the model Andreja Pejicpart of the movie Millennium: What doesn’t kill you makes you strongerfrom 2018.

Daliland It will make its premiere on September 17 with a first performance at the Princess of Wales Theater and a second at the Roy Thomson Hall of the independent film festival that will close a day later in Toronto, Canada, on the 18th.

The festival, which starts the Tuesday after Labor Day (the first Monday in September) and lasts 10 days, is considered one of the most important in the world. Launched in 1976 as a retrospective of the best festivals in the world, it has since become an important partner of Hollywood, so much so that it is sometimes considered a prelude to the Oscar.

Source: Telam

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