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The final clapperboard slams on Quentin Dupieux’s Daaaaaali !

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- Anaïs Demoustier, Gilles Lellouche, Pierre Niney, Alain Chabat, Edouard Baer, Pio Marmaï and Jonathan Cohen star in the cast of this film steered by Atelier de Production and sold by Kinology

The final clapperboard slams on Quentin Dupieux’s Daaaaaali !
Actress Anaïs Demoustier (© Georges Biard) and actors Gilles Lellouche (© Georges Biard), Pierre Niney (© Georges Biard) and Alain Chabat (© Georges Biard)

At the end of a six-week shoot, Friday saw Quentin Dupieux wrap filming on Daaaaaali! [+see also:
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, his 11th feature film after Rubber [+see also:
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]
(Cannes’ Critics’ Week 2010), Wrong [+see also:
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]
(Sundance 2012), Wrong Cops [+see also:
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]
(Locarno’s Piazza Grande in 2013), Reality [+see also:
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trailer
film profile
]
(Venice’s Orizzonti line-up in 2014), Deerskin [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Quentin Dupieux
film profile
]
(Directors’ Fortnight 2019),  Mandibles [+see also:
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trailer
interview: Quentin Dupieux
film profile
]
(screened out of competition in Venice 2020), Incredible But True [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Quentin Dupieux
film profile
]
(shown out of competition in this year’s Berlinale) and Smoking Causes Coughing [+see also:
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]
(honoured with a Midnight Screening in Cannes this year), to name just a few.

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The XXL cast of his new opus includes Anaïs Demoustier (awarded 2020’s Best Actress César for Alice and the Mayor [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Nicolas Pariser
film profile
]
and who we’ll be seeing in La bête dans la jungle and Le temps d’aimer next year), Gilles Lellouche (recently nominated for the 2022 Best Actor César via The Stronghold [+see also:
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trailer
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]
and hitting cinemas on 1 February in Asterix & Obelix: The Middle Kingdom), Pierre Niney (recently nominated for the 2022 Best Actor César via Black Box [+see also:
trailer
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]
and toplining Le livre des solutions next year), Alain Chabat (who’s linking back up with Quentin Dupieux for the 4th time), Édouard Baer (recently seen in How To Be A Good Wife [+see also:
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interview: Anamaria Vartolomei
film profile
]
), Pio Marmaï (recently nominated for the 2022 Best Actor César courtesy of The Divide [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Catherine Corsini
film profile
]
, and due to hit cinemas on 5 April and then in November via the two-part film The Three Musketeers) and Jonathan Cohen (nominated for the 2021 Best Actor César via Enormous [+see also:
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).

Written by the director, the story revolves around a French journalist who meets Salvador Dali on various occasions for a documentary project.

Daaaaaali! is produced by Thomas and Mathieu Verhaeghe on behalf of Atelier de Production, in co-production with France 3 Cinéma. The movie is pre-purchased by Canal+, OCS, France 3 and C8, and also enjoys support from the Ile-de-France and Sud regions, as well as from the SOFICA companies Cofinova, Indéfilms, Entourage and Cinéaxe. International sales will be steered by Kinology and French distribution by Diaphana.

For the record, Atelier de Production, who are working with Quentin Dupieux for the 4th time, released Stella In Love [+see also:
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interview: Sylvie Verheyde
film profile
]
by Sylvie Verheyde on 14 December and are releasing The Great Magic [+see also:
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]
by Noémie Lvovsky on 8 February.

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(Translated from French)

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