limps along about as lifelessly as one of Dali's melting clocks
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09/16/09
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.
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... [More]
Starring: Javier Beltran, Robert Pattinson, Matthew McNulty, Marina Gatell
Director: Paul Morrison
Reviews for Little Ashes
Beltran tries to give this flimsy nonsense some weight, but Brits McNulty and Pattinson's attempts at a Spanish accent are woeful.
09/03/09
It's not even worth it for Robert Pattinson, who is shown in the movie, nearly fully naked, with his privates tucked between his legs, but everything else showing.
08/18/09
A Pretentious Mess of a Bio-pic In the Worst Sense of the Phrase.
08/10/09
The movie commits the error of scanting their cultural importance and fixating on Lorca's semi-requited love for Dali.
08/07/09
Sexual repression claims yet one more victim.
08/07/09
A bravely earnest and gauzy bit of biography.
06/26/09
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.
06/17/09
The movie, with its badly painted backdrops, its stiff acting and its complete lack of dramatic momentum, is embarrassing to watch.
06/05/09
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.
05/29/09
Top CriticLittle Ashes is stylish enough to beguile and bold enough to provoke, but it's not bright enough to illuminate.
05/28/09
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.
05/22/09
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.
05/22/09
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.
05/21/09
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.
05/21/09
A pleasurable, old fashioned gay romance with a good measure of art and politics tossed in between the passion.
05/15/09
Exactly the kind of flavorless bourgeois froth that the men it takes for its subjects would have ridiculed mercilessly.
05/15/09
Better to seek out these artists' works firsthand than to settle for this tame rehash, pretty as it may be.
05/14/09
The only viewers on whom the film is likely to make a big impression are young fans of Robert Pattinson, the heart-throb star of Twilight. For them, watching their idol’s unrestrained performance as Dali will be quite a crash course in surrealism.
05/13/09
It's reductive and overly schematic in the way movies about the literary and intellectual life tend to be.
05/13/09
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