- Nerd alert: I bothered to look up the HTML special character codes to make sure all the little accents for Spanish pronunciation would show up properly in the plot synopsis.
- It amazes me how a film that involves illicit love, illegal sex, art, anarchy, fascism, war, drunkenness, and la revolución could be so utterly bland. I feel it takes particular skill to take subject matter such as this and give it such a dirty dishwater quality. Grey and lacking bubbles.
- R PATTZ as Dali was completely ridiculous. I’m glad to know that the tradition of douchey art students goes at least as far back as 1922. His attention whoring was incredibly painful, as was his fabulous fashion sense comprised mostly of puffy shirts and bad hair. Astounding. I’m about 98% sure there were guys like this in my drawing classes in university. That said, the ridiculousness was the only thing that injected any sense of life into the movie; R PATTZ getting to ham it up about four thousand notches more than was necessary was pretty amusing.
- Fawkward sex tip: don’t have violent sex with a girl you have no interest in while the whole time you are staring over her shoulder at your kinda-boyfriend who is hunched in the corner of your bedroom, masturbating while he watches. This is about as close as Dali and Lorca get to consummating their relationship and I just feel sorry for poor Margarita, whose basic function in the scene could be reduced to the word HOLE. Christ. I think they were trying for a Brokeback Mountain type tragedy of lovers torn apart by conservative sexual mores, but mostly I cared for neither character nor their joint plight.
- The midnight dip in the ocean that resulted in a super magical kiss under the light of the moon made almost everyone in the theatre laugh.
- IMDB claims that if I like this, I will also like High Fidelity. Um… no.
- I feel like sometimes two stars is the worst rating I can give a movie that is deathly boring. To achieve something lower than that, you have to flame out spectacularly and usually it results in at least a moderately hilarious movie, if only by accident.
Little Ashes
Truthfully, I’ve always been more of a Rene Magritte girl.
IMDB Plot Synopsis About the young life and loves of artist Salvador Dalí, filmmaker Luis Buñuel and writer Federico García Lorca.