Synopsis
About the young life and loves of artist Salvador Dalí, filmmaker Luis Buñuel and writer Federico García Lorca.
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Cast
- Javier BeltránFederico García Lorca
- Robert PattinsonSalvador Dalí
- Matthew McNultyLuis Buñuel
- Marina GatellMagdalena
- Adria AllueGuardia
- Bruno OroPaco
- Esther NubiolaAdela
- Marc PujolCarlos
- Arly JoverGala
- Simón AndreuFernando de Valle
Recommendations
- 75
Chicago Sun-Times
Little Ashes is absorbing but not compelling. Most of its action is inward. - 70
The Hollywood Reporter
Ashes makes no claims to be an entirely accurate biopic; it's a speculative, impressionistic portrait without a lot of dramatic force or psychological depth. But it's an elegantly designed film that fascinates as often as it frustrates. - 50
Village Voice
A typically bombastic lives-of-the-artists production made even more stilted by having all the actors (including the Spanish ones) speak accented English. - 50
USA Today
If you'd like to know about the famously eccentric psyche of surrealist artist Salvador Dali, whom Pattinson plays, you're better off consulting written biographies. Little Ashes does nothing to illuminate the iconic Spanish artist. - 50
Los Angeles Times
A trifling historical fantasy, gossip wrapped in gossamer, beautiful to watch but it takes only a light wind to leave the story in tatters. - 50
San Francisco Chronicle
Director Paul Morrison ("Wondrous Oblivion") nicely re-creates the period, but puts too much weight on the sexual relationship as determining the men's artistic courses. - 50
The New York Times
A painfully sincere study in creative passion, sexual ardor and political zeal that embalms a mad and exuberant historical moment within the talky, balky conventions of period-costumed highbrow soap opera. - 42
Entertainment Weekly
I can't imagine what Dali or Buñuel would have made of such bourgeois sentimentality.
