Little ashes gay scene
“Little Ashes” is an awful, artless film about the homosexual poet/playwright Federico García Lorca (Javier Beltrán) and his relationships with both the artist Salvador Dalí (Robert Pattinson) and the filmmaker Luis Buñuel (Matthew McNulty).
With all of the depth and style of a Wikipedia entry, this torpid drama — it is hardly a proper biopic — opens in 1922, when an era of conservative morality held Spain in its grasp.
Federico is attending an art school in Madrid and becomes besotted with new student Dalí. And Pattinson, the heartthrob from “Twilight,” makes his entrance, dandily — a fop in poofy clothing. He looks uncomfortable and says his lines without the slightest bit of conviction.
However, Pattinson may be the sole reason the staggeringly bad “Little Ashes” is getting a theatrical release at all. Without the novelty of his ludicrous performance, this debacle would have likely received the purgatorial direct-to-video treatment it deserves. Yet even teenage girls and homosexual men who swoon over this slight — in both build and talent — actor will likely be disappointed with him here. Pattinson is utterly miscast; he plays the film’s most pivotal traits without being th
REVIEW: LITTLE ASHES
Paul Morrison’s Little Ashes speculates on the affair between three talented students in Madrid in 1922.
What makes this trio so unique is that they all went on to develop famed artists in their own right; the painter Salvador Dali (Robert Pattinson), the gay poet Federico Garcia Lorca (Javier Beltrán) and the filmmaker Luis Bunnel (Matthew McNulty).
It explores their soon years as enthusiastic, rebellious students trying to live the bohemian life in the context of a dangerously conservative Spain on the brink of civil war. The movie suggests that the relationship between Dali and Lorca moved beyond friendship into one approaching a romance. And it’s in this area that it is most successful.
As a sweet story of unrequited love I enjoyed Little Ashes although I learnt little about the famed iconic characters represented on screen. There is, at times, an almost palpable sexual tension between the two artists. But, despite the much hyped “nude” scene and man-on-man kissing involving hottie du jour Pattinson, there’s not really much on screen.
Pattinson is annoyingly coy at first but is more interesting as Dali becom
Robert Pattinson told German Interview that his “orgasm face is recorded for all of eternity” thanks to the queer sex scenes in Little Ashes. Pattinson plays Salvador Dali and says the sex scenes in the film between Dali and poet Federico García Lorca, played by Javier Beltrán, were original because faking it “just doesn’t labor, so I pleasured myself in front of the camera.”
Pattinson is the brand-new face of Dior Homme, and the just-released video ad is a give back to his premature modelling career.“It went okay at first,” Pattinson told Interview of his go-see days. “I was tall and looked like a teen. It worked because people loved the androgynous look at the time. But then I got older and manlier and nobody wanted me anymore.”
He also confessed that when it came to sex scenes, “the Dali production was the worst, it was mortifying. We were all hanging out by the pool, trying to loosen up. I was nervously clinging to the edge — and before I could turn around, the Spaniard was already naked. He happily swam towards me, and I didn’t have a clue how to react. I felt like Mr Bean.”
Mr Bean maybe, but Mr Grey? Not so much. Although Bret Easton Ellis tweeted that he w
In Little Ashes, we see the rise and fall of a love affair between the Spanish poet Federico García Lorca (played by an unknown, Javier Beltrán) and the painter Salvador Dalí (played by a very well-known Robert Pattinson—the vampire in Twilight). The affair's ascension begins in 1922, while the two are in college in Madrid. Its peak happens while the two are vacationing in a remote area of Spain. The seduction scene: The painter and poet take a boat out to the middle of a lake, jump into its warm waters, and, as their legs are kicking below the surface, smooch in the moonlight. Moments before the kissing, the moon leaves the clouds; moments after the kissing, the moon returns to the clouds. From this dizzying point, the only way to go is down. (This section is the worst part of this generally unsatisfying movie.)
What brings the affair down? Lorca loves Dalí more than Dalí loves Lorca. The reason for this disparity/despair is that Dalí's sexuality is not as cemented as Lorca's. Lorca is clearly gay; Dalí is not. Adding to the tension are two other beautiful people who form separate triangles with the lovers. One triangle is formed by Luis Buñuel (Matthew McNulty), who studies