Daaaaaalí! (2023) review

Pharmacist-turned-journalist Judith (Anaïs Demoustier) is given the opportunity of a lifetime to interview iconic artist Salvador Dalí (played, at various times and different ages, by Édouard Baer, Jonathan Cohen, Didier Flamand, Gilles Lellouche and Pio Marmaï), but during every encounter Dalí finds something wrong with the setup (on one occasion at the beach, he accidentally breaks a camera), so they have to keep repeatedly rescheduling - the hassle results in a "documentary" that he doesn't like.  I think merry prankster Dupieux is correct that a "traditional" biopic would not have "worked," but even this flippant "non-movie" doesn't yield a meaningful product: it's as if the respective idiosyncrasies of the auteur and his subject cancel each other out, and the audience learns nothing more about Dalí except he believed his very existence (not just the paintings) was "art."  The handling of Father Jacques (Éric Naggar) discussing his dream - which never seems to end - is hilarious, however, and might have amused the actual Spanish surrealist if he was still alive and walking around Paris with an anteater ... but then again, probably not.