Surrealissimo: The Scandalous Success of Salvador Dali (2002)

Actors

• Roger Booth (actor)
• Ewen Bremner (actor)
• Nicholas Burns (actor)
• Noel Fielding (actor)
• Stephen Fry (actor)
• Mark Gatiss (actor)
• Matt Lucas (actor)
• Tim McMullan (actor)
• Jonathan Meades (actor)
• Ben Miller (actor)
• Michael Nyman (actor)
• Vic Reeves (actor)
• Adrian Schiller (actor)
• Katrin Cartlidge (actress)
• Julian Barratt (actor)

Genres

• Comedy
• Drama

Quotes:

Bauer: The lobster telephone...::Rosey: ...is as decorative...::Bauer: ...as a testicle.::Rosey: Our crab phone...::Bauer: ...is much better.::Bauer: Hello?::Rosey: Hello?::Bauer: Hello?::Rosey: Hello?

Aragon: [Looking at Dali's "The Enigma of William Tell"] If I believed in God, I would call that blasphemous.

Andre Breton: We have a responsibility even to our dreams.

Andre Breton: Dali has said that his friends' mishaps delight him. How can he enjoy the pain of his friends?::Salvador Dali: This is wrong?::Andre Breton: This is anti-proletarian, anti-humanitarian, and revolting.

Andre Breton: [regarding an article written about Dali] Surrealism has been insulted and the grammar is appalling!

Bauer: Well, maybe he's got a point. That Hitler stuff was great.::Rosey: It wasn't that good.::Bauer: Well, why don't you come up with something then?::Rosey: Maybe I will!

Gala Dali: It's time.::Salvador Dali: Yes.::Gala Dali: Which sweater will you wear?::Salvador Dali: All of them!

Aragon: His failure to arrive must be seen as a dissension!::Rosey: It must be seen as...::Bauer: ...his inability to tell time.

Rosey: [after seeing "Un Chien Andalou"] Superbly paranoiac, Buñuel.::Bunuel: Oh, it was nothing, really.::Bauer: I found it absolutely degrading. Congratulations.::Bunuel: You're too kind.

Rosey: Bauer, will you begin?::Bauer: [Bauer hops on to the table and pointS to each person before he speaks] Knock, knock.::Andre Breton: Who is there?::Bauer: The King of England.::Rosey: Yes, out of curiosity.::Andre Breton: No, lacks style.::Aragon: No, I wasn't expecting you.::Yoyotte: Erm... yes, but in silence.::Salvador Dali: [to Yayotte] What is going on?::Yoyotte: I have no idea.::Waiter: [to Bauer on the table] Oi, down!

Surrealism (1993)

Actors

• Burl Barer (actor)
• Mike Bentley (actor)
• Robert De Chico (actor)
• Tony Denmore (actor)
• Wallace Fowlie (actor)
• Michael Hilow (actor)
• Ryan K. Johnson (actor)
• Karl Krogstad (actor)
• Arthur King Peters (actor)
• Mark Polizzotti (actor)
• Tom Robbins (actor)
• George Rohrbach (actor)
• Roger Shattuck (actor)
• Geoff Stittzer (actor)
• Alex Szogyi (actor)

Genres

• Documentary

Aragon, Louis Filmography

• Aurélien
  2003, role: writer
• Eddie Constantine: Cet homme est un sentimental...
  1999, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Le bel été 1914
  1996, role: writer
• Les beaux quartiers
  1983, role: writer
• Catherine
  1981, role: writer
• Aurélien
  1978, role: writer
• Video 50
  1978, role: actor
• La fête aujourd'hui, la fête demain
  1974, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Elsa la rose
  1966, role: writer
• Elsa la rose
  1966, role: actor , character name: Himself
• La rose et le réséda
  1947, role: writer
• Defensa de Madrid (Segunda parte)
  1937, role: actor
• Le coeur à barbe
  1930, role: actor , character name: Himself

Famous quotes by Louis Aragon:

"There are strange flowers of reason to match each error of the senses."

"The whole fauna of human fantasies, their marine vegetation, drifts and luxuriates in the dimly lit zones of human activity, as though plaiting thick tresses of darkness. Here, too, appear the lighthouses of the mind, with their outward resemblance to less pure symbols. The gateway to mystery swings open at the touch of human weakness and we have entered the realms of darkness. One false step, one slurred syllable together reveal a man's thoughts."

"Fear of error which everything recalls to me at every moment of the flight of my ideas, this mania for control, makes men prefer reason's imagination to the imagination of the senses. And yet it is always the imagination alone which is at work."

"Love is made by two people in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd but in an oblivious crowd."

"There exists a black kingdom which the eyes of man avoid because its landscape fails signally to flatter them. This darkness, which he imagines he can dispense with in describing the light, is error with its unknown characteristics. Error is certainty's constant companion. Error is the corollary of evidence. And anything said about truth may equally well be said about error: the delusion will be no greater."

"We know that the nature of genius is to provide idiots with ideas twenty years later."

"Of all possible sexual perversions, religion is the only one to have ever been scientifically systematized."

"O reason, reason, abstract phantom of the waking state, I had already expelled you from my dreams, now I have reached a point where those dreams are about to become fused with apparent realities: now there is only room here for myself."

"Light is meaningful only in relation to darkness, and truth presupposes error. It is these mingled opposites which people our life, which make it pungent, intoxicating. We only exist in terms of this conflict, in the zone where black and white clash."

"Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd."

"I demand that my books be judged with utmost severity, by knowledgeable people who know the rules of grammar and of logic, and who will seek beneath the footsteps of my commas the lice of my thought in the head of my style."

"Can the knowledge deriving from reason even begin to compare with knowledge perceptible by sense?"