Robert Pattinson Australia

Two new ‘Little Ashes’ Reviews

Here’s what Roger Ebert (from Chicago Sun Times) had to say about Little Ashes:

Little Ashes” is absorbing but not compelling. Most of its action is inward. The more we know about the three men the better. Although the eyeball-slicing is shown in the film, many audiences may have no idea what it is doing there. Perhaps Dali’s gradual slinking away from his ideals, his early embrace of celebrity, his preference for self-publicity over actual achievement, makes better sense when we begin with his shyness and naivete; is he indeed entirely aware that his hair and dress are those of a girl, or has he been coddled in this way by a strict, protective mother who is hostile to male sexuality?

Whatever the case, two things stand out: He has the courage to present himself in quasi-drag, and the other students at the Students’ Residence, inspired by the fever in the air, accept him as “making a statement” he might not have been fully aware of.

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And here’s another review, from E!Online:

Vampiric hottie Robert Pattinson trades bloodlust for boylust, playing bi-curious surrealist Salvador Dali, who has a romance with revolutionary author García Lorca. Sounds smokin’, right? It should’ve been. But soggy plotting and Pattinson’s tepid turn keep Ashes from catching fire.

A drably scripted indie with Merchant-Ivory aspirations (see its gay-themed Maurice instead), scattered Ashes can’t rise above the tortured-artist and tortured-closet-case clichés, and despite all its big themes and chatter about art and religion and revolution and death, ends up saying very little.

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