Dalíland
Guests Expected
Director Mary Harron, Producer David Sacks, Screenwriter John C. Walsh
Description
It’s best to depict egomaniacs, even talented ones like Salvador Dalí (Ben Kingsley, gloriously chewing scenery), through the eyes of someone in their orbit but not their headspace. Someone like art-school dropout James (Christopher Briney), a handsome young man working for an NYC gallery in the mid-’70s who is asked to deliver money to Dalí and his wife Gala (an imperious Barbara Sukowa) and is soon swept into their world of parties filled with beautiful people and copious substances. Director Mary Harron is the perfect director for this subject matter, with an unerring eye for period detail and novel ways of looking at real celebrities from various cultural zeitgeists. Newcomer Briney deftly portrays the wide-eyed, game-for-anything James while Kingsley and Sukowa lay bare the roots of an obsessive and dysfunctional marriage between two extraordinary narcissists.
A Tribute to Mary Harron + “Dalíland”
Fri, Apr 14 at 8:30 pm PT at CGV San Francisco
Join us for a special Awards Presentation and conversation with filmmaker Mary Harron. Click here to purchase tickets.
Before she went into filmmaking, Mary Harron wrote for Punk magazine and interviewed the Sex Pistols, the first journalist to do so for an American publication. She later worked as a producer for a PBS series, Edge (1991). Her first feature, I Shot Andy Warhol (1996), debuted at Cannes and was nominated for a Best First Feature Film Independent Spirit Award. Among her other films are American Psycho (2000), The Notorious Bettie Page (2005), The Moth Diaries (2011), and the miniseries Alias Grace (2017).
Trailer
Film Details
Language English
Year 2022
Premiere US
Runtime 103
Country UK, USA
Director Mary Harron
Executive Producer Paula Paizes, Hannah Leader, Ben Kingsley, Max Burger, Monique Burger, Chandu Shah, Cindy Saggar, Philip Colbert, Charlotte Colbert, Michael R. Newman, Jon Katz, Munkhtulga Od, Marc Iserlis
Producer Edward R. Pressman, David O. Sacks, Daniel Brunt, Chris Curling, Sam Pressman
Writer John C. Walsh
Editor Alex Mackie
Cinematographer Marcel Zyskind
Music Edmund Butt
Cast Ben Kingsley, Barbara Sukowa, Christopher Briney
Print Source Magnolia Picturesdmccarthy@magpictures.com https://www.magpictures.com
Closed Captions Closed Captions are not currently confirmed and will be updated soon.
Audio Description Audio Descriptions are not currently confirmed and will be updated soon.
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