If you watch "The Dali and the Cooper", you'll probably think that it's all fiction....very, very strange and warped fiction. However, I've seen some documentaries on Salvador Dali and heard Alice Cooper talk about their meeting....and so the weirdness of this short film doesn't come as any surprise. In the documentaries, I heard Cooper describe Dali as 'the strangest person I've ever met'....and that's saying a lot!! Combine this with Surrealism and you've got a weird confection!
The story stars British comedian Noel Fielding as Alice Cooper. It's rather funny to listen to Fielding trying out an American accent. And, Dali is played by David Suchet...the man most familiar for playing Hercule Poirot...a man about as different from Dali as I could imagine! There also is Cooper's manager (Paul Kaye) and Gala's dominatrix-like wife, Gala (Sheila Hancock)...and Gala was one interesting lady!
As I watched, my wife exclaimed "What IS this?!"....and I can only assume MOST people would react this way. The film is NOT for the average viewer and is incredibly bizarre and confusing...because Dali and his wife were incredibly bizarre and confusing!
Overall, it's like being a fly on the wall during one of the strangest collaborations in history. Hard to describe but a must-see for folks who admire Dali. And, if you do watch, understand that they way they portray Gala is probably a lot nicer than the real-life Gala! Also, throughout the film, you see 'Cooper' drinking beer almost constantly, which was the case with him back in the days before he embraced sobriety.
The story stars British comedian Noel Fielding as Alice Cooper. It's rather funny to listen to Fielding trying out an American accent. And, Dali is played by David Suchet...the man most familiar for playing Hercule Poirot...a man about as different from Dali as I could imagine! There also is Cooper's manager (Paul Kaye) and Gala's dominatrix-like wife, Gala (Sheila Hancock)...and Gala was one interesting lady!
As I watched, my wife exclaimed "What IS this?!"....and I can only assume MOST people would react this way. The film is NOT for the average viewer and is incredibly bizarre and confusing...because Dali and his wife were incredibly bizarre and confusing!
Overall, it's like being a fly on the wall during one of the strangest collaborations in history. Hard to describe but a must-see for folks who admire Dali. And, if you do watch, understand that they way they portray Gala is probably a lot nicer than the real-life Gala! Also, throughout the film, you see 'Cooper' drinking beer almost constantly, which was the case with him back in the days before he embraced sobriety.
