LITTLE ASHES
LITTLE ASHES is an obscure line from an obscure poem that adds even more confusion to this befuddled movie. Current Twilight heart throb Robert Pattinson is not quite up to the stretch of playing Spanish surrealist Salvador Dalí. Although his is the most famous character portrayed he turns out not to be the central character. The focal point turns out to be Federico García Lorca (Javier Beltrán) the legendary but persecuted Spanish poet who was a voice of dissent during a time of Spanish repression in the early part of the 20th century. Although much is made of the long time on-again-off-again relationship between the two as Dali gets more eccentric and Lorca gets more intense, this is no Brokeback Madrid. It’s a little like watching paint dry and not in an abstract way.