Robert Pattinson Channels Artist Salvador Dalí
Twilight star Robert Pattinson can’t always play a vampire heartthrob.
In his next movie, Little Ashes, set in 1922 and described by Variety as an “arty Bohemian romp,” the London-born actor, 22, plays Spanish surrealist painter (1904-1989) Salvador Dalí as a young man – in love with the poet Federico GarcÍa Lorca, played by Javier Beltran.
The two meet at university, with Lorca attracted to what the movie’s production notes call Dalí’s “bizarre blend of shyness and rampant exhibitionism.” Hey, beats a bite in the neck.
Little Ashes opens in late March.
– Stephen M. Silverman
It is so wonderful to see Little Ashes getting some well deserved attention. There is no release date for Australia as yet but I absolutely cannot wait for the day when we too will be able to see the movie.
