class=”alignleft size-full wp-image-73544″ title=”salvador dali” src=”https://www.heyuguys.com/images/2011/02/salvador-dali.jpg” alt=”” width=”211″ height=”190″ />If there was ever a biopic which suited the 3D format, surely a glimpse into Salvador Dali’s world must factor high on the list. Philippe Mora (a key figure from the Australian new wave of the 1970s and 80s) is both writing and directing a feature on the Surrealist artist’s life.
Alan Cumming will take the lead role in a film which sounds like it will be ditching the traditional biopic approach, and instead the story will unfold “not as a linear narrative but as a series of dream-like, fantasy sequences intersected with reality, and is profoundly evocative of Dali’s art.” Add 3D to the mix, and there is the potential here to produce something magical.
The artist himself was no stranger to cinema, and his work surfaced in Alfred Hitchcock’s 1945 film, Spellbound (Dali created the dream sequence) as well as collaborating with fellow surrealist Luis Bunuel in 1928’s Un Chien Andalou, which included the infamous eyeball slitting shot (familiar to film students throughout the land!).
Filming here is due to begin in June and will utilise a number of locations, such as New York, London, Barcelona, Cologne and the director’s home country.
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