With “I Shot Andy Warhol” in 1996, Mary Harron launched her filmmaking career by depicting an artist with a complicated legacy, and that fixation never left her.
Her latest effort, “Dalíland,” follows that trajectory with a trenchant look at the later years of Salvador Dalí.
While the legacies of many legendary creators have been reevaluated in modern times, Harron’s own fixations haven’t kept from appreciating her troubled subjects.“There are a lot of artists’ work that I do not want people to cut themselves off from,” the director told IndieWire in a recent interview.
“I love reading Dostoyevsky, who was anti-Semitic and had crazy political ideas.
I was very influenced as a young person by Polanski, who did terrible things and really should’ve been in prison for them.
But that doesn’t mean his films didn’t continue to inspire.”As for Dalí: The Surrealist may have been…
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