LITTLE ASHES

There are no sessions available for your selected film.

Dir: Paul Morrison, UK, 2009, video, 107min
Genre: Drama, Romance
Identity: Gay

Starring Twilight’s Robert Pattinson, Little Ashes is a controversial and highly charged insight into the relationship between Salvador Dalí and poet Federico García Lorca. Madrid, 1922, and the city is at a crossroads. Gripped by a conservative morality with the church and army dominating all aspects of life, a burgeoning artistic student body is emerging, set to challenge the bourgeois lifestyle into which they were born. 18-year-old Salvador Dalí arrives at university and catches the attention of two of the university’s social elite, Federico García Lorca and Luis Buñuel, and is quickly absorbed into their decadent group. Dalí and Lorca are instantly attracted to each other, but their desire for consummation is constantly thwarted.

Depicting an extraordinary period in time of artistic expression, Little Ashes spans 1922 to the Spanish Civil War in 1936 – from Dalí (and Buñuel’s) spectacular success with Un Chien Andalou (1929) in Paris, to Lorca’s travels throughout Spain – but at its core it is the tragic love story of two men unable to reconcile the personal, social and political forces that threatens to tear both themselves and their country apart. (PT)

Presented by Same Same