The Ten Commandments

1956. USA. Directed by Cecil B. DeMille. With Charlton Heston, Yvonne De Carlo. During the early 1950s Dalí returned to the Roman Catholic church, not only to embrace his former religion, but also as a means to reintroduce himself to the religious iconography of Italian Renaissance paintings. His numerous portraits of his wife Gala as the Madonna of Port Lligat balance Renaissance imagery with modern aspects of the burgeoning atomic age. Dalí delighted in DeMille's camp version of ancient times and infused his own quasi-religious paintings with similar incongruities. 222 min.