Dali In New York

Filmmaker Jack Bond and Salvador Dali got together at Christmas 1965 to make Dali in New York a highly entertaining film Dali devoted two weeks of his life to creating extraordinary scenes for the film performing manifestations with a plaster cast A thousand ants and one million dollars in cash When he confronts the feminist writer Jane Arden sparks fly You are my Slave I am not your slave Everybody is my slave Dali recalls his meeting with Freud The last human relationship ever About his wife But for Gala I would be lying in a gutter somewhere covered with lice Jim Desmonds dazzling cinematography captures the great artist painting as Flamenco virtuoso Manitas de Plata performs Dali in New York is a rare treat for anyone who loves film and the living theatre of Dalis surreal universe