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Little Ashes

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Little Ashes (2009)

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Reviews Counted:63

Fresh:15

Rotten:48

Average Rating:4.2/10

Consensus: It has a beautiful cast, but Little Ashes suffers from an uneven tone and a surplus of unintentionally silly moments.

Rated: 15 [See Full Rating] for sexual content, language and a brief disturbing image.

Runtime: 1 hr 52 mins

Genre: Dramas

Theatrical Release:08-05-2009

Synopsis: A romantic story about the young life and loves of artist Salvador Dali, filmmaker Luis Buñuel and writer Federico Garcia Lorca. In 1922, Madrid is wavering on the edge of change as traditional... A romantic story about the young life and loves of artist Salvador Dali, filmmaker Luis Buñuel and writer Federico Garcia Lorca. In 1922, Madrid is wavering on the edge of change as traditional values are challenged by the dangerous new influences of Jazz, Freud and the avant-garde. Salvador Dali arrives at the university, 18 years old and determined to become a great artist. His bizarre blend of shyness and rampant exhibitionism attracts the attention of two of the university's social elite - Federico Garcia Lorca and Luis Buñuel. Salvador is absorbed into their decadent group and for a time Salvador, Luis and Federico become a formidable trio, the most ultra-modern group in Madrid. However as time passes, Salvador feels an increasingly strong pull towards the charismatic Federico - who is himself oblivious of the attentions he is getting from his beautiful writer friend, Margarita. Finally, in the face of his friends' preoccupations - and Federico's growing renown as a poet - Luis sets off for Paris in search of his own artistic success. Federico and Salvador spend the holiday in the sea-side town of Cadaques. Both the idyllic surroundings and the warmth of the Dali family sweep Federico off his feet. Salvador and he draw closer, sharing their deepest beliefs, inspirations and secrets, convinced that they have found a kind of friendship undreamt of by others. It is more that a meeting of the minds; it is a fusion of souls. And then one night, in the phosphorescent water, it becomes something else. --© Regent Releasing [More]

Starring: Javier Beltran, Robert Pattinson, Matthew McNulty, Marina Gatell

Starring: Javier Beltran, Robert Pattinson, Matthew McNulty, Marina Gatell, Esther Nubiola, Bruno Oro, Simon Andreu, Vicky Pena, Arly Jover

Director: Paul Morrison

Director: Paul Morrison
Screenwriter: Phillipa Goslett
Producer: Carlo Dusi, Jonny Persey, Jaume Vilalta
Composer: Miguel Mera
Studio: Regent Releasing

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A Pretentious Mess of a Bio-pic In the Worst Sense of the Phrase.

Full Review Source: Film Snobs | comment Comment
08/10/09
Jimmy O
Jimmy O
Film Snobs

The movie commits the error of scanting their cultural importance and fixating on Lorca's semi-requited love for Dali.

Full Review Source: Baltimore Sun | comment Comment
08/07/09
Michael Sragow
Michael Sragow
Baltimore Sun

Sexual repression claims yet one more victim.

Full Review Source: Austin Chronicle | comment Comment
08/07/09
Marjorie Baumgarten
Marjorie Baumgarten
Austin Chronicle

A bravely earnest and gauzy bit of biography.

Full Review Source: Philadelphia Inquirer | comment Comment
06/26/09
Steven Rea
Steven Rea
Philadelphia Inquirer

A dry, dull retelling of a typical gay coming-of-age tale that's invigorated by neither the period backdrop nor the fact that the characters were real people.

Full Review Source: One Guy's Opinion | comment Comment
06/17/09
Frank Swietek
Frank Swietek
One Guy's Opinion

The movie, with its badly painted backdrops, its stiff acting and its complete lack of dramatic momentum, is embarrassing to watch.

Full Review Source: St. Paul Pioneer Press | comment 1 Comment
06/05/09
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul)
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul)
St. Paul Pioneer Press

Beltran, for his part, makes a solidly believable Garcia Lorca. The problem is with the man with whom he's obsessed. In Pattinson's performance, we never see what Garcia Lorca sees in Dali.

Full Review Source: Washington Post | comment Comment
05/29/09
Michael O'Sullivan
Michael O'Sullivan
Washington Post

Little Ashes is stylish enough to beguile and bold enough to provoke, but it's not bright enough to illuminate.

Full Review Source: St. Louis Post-Dispatch | comment 1 Comment
05/28/09
Joe Williams
Joe Williams
St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Even cinematographer Adam Suschitzky's richly textured and resonantly toned cityscapes and rural scenes can't make up for a flawed script and weak performances in what might have been a powerful historical drama.

Full Review Source: Toronto Star | comment 3 Comments
05/22/09
Greg Quill
Greg Quill
Toronto Star

While it eventually improves, the first quarter-hour of Paul Morrison's drama about the youthful exploits of Spanish artists Salvador Dali, Frederico Garcia Lorca and Luis Bunuel is cringe-worthy.

Full Review Source: Oregonian | comment Comment
05/22/09
Stan Hall
Stan Hall
Oregonian

What's intended to be a daring look at repressed sexuality, three-ways and all, has the dramatic heft of a true-love comic book.

Full Review Source: Boston Globe | comment Comment
05/21/09
Ty Burr
Ty Burr
Boston Globe

An intriguing and muddled relationship between three brilliant artists is downgraded into a tedious and lurid art-world soap opera full of convoluted love triangles.

Full Review Source: AskMen.com | comment Comment
05/21/09
Rick Mele
Rick Mele
AskMen.com

A pleasurable, old fashioned gay romance with a good measure of art and politics tossed in between the passion.

Full Review Source: Windy City Times | comment Comment
05/15/09
Richard Knight
Richard Knight
Windy City Times

Exactly the kind of flavorless bourgeois froth that the men it takes for its subjects would have ridiculed mercilessly.

Full Review Source: Antagony & Ecstasy | comment Comment
05/15/09
Tim Brayton
Tim Brayton
Antagony & Ecstasy

Better to seek out these artists' works firsthand than to settle for this tame rehash, pretty as it may be.

Full Review Source: Seattle Times | comment Comment
05/14/09
Moira MacDonald
Moira MacDonald
Seattle Times

I think you should go ahead and rent the movie.

Full Review Source: At the Movies | comment Comment
05/11/09
Ben Mankiewicz
Ben Mankiewicz
At the Movies

A noble effort, that ultimately left me disappointed and unfulfilled.

Full Review Source: At the Movies | comment Comment
05/11/09
Ben Lyons
Ben Lyons
At the Movies

[O]nly indiscriminate vampire-swooning tweens will appreciate [Pattinson's] portrayal of the surrealistic Spanish painter and filmmaker Salvador Dalí.

Full Review Source: Flick Filosopher | comment Comment
05/11/09
MaryAnn Johanson
MaryAnn Johanson
Flick Filosopher

a scattershot mess with beautiful people posing self-consciously in elegantly composed scenes

Full Review Source: Killer Movie Reviews | comment Comment
05/09/09
Andrea Chase
Andrea Chase
Killer Movie Reviews

An exceedingly silly historical fantasy.

Full Review Source: New York Post | comment Comment
05/08/09
Lou Lumenick
Lou Lumenick
New York Post
 
 
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