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Little Ashes: new film about early, gay love affairs of Salvador Dali
Brown Eyes:
--- Quote from: louisev on April 14, 2009, 01:13:54 pm ---that Dali mustache on Pattison looks terrible.
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Well, FWIW I think the moustache looked terrible on Dali himself (and in some respects I think Dali intended it to look ridiculous).
oilgun:
"I look terrible you say?! Am I not still dreeeeamy?!"
I found a review of the film and it's a good & informative read. And it seems I may have been right about the title Little Ashes, being taken from something Lorca wrote:
http://www.gayblade.com/news0309_ashes.shtml
Excerpt from: Love & Art Rise From Little Ashes by Chris Carpenter
While Dali and Bunuel gained immediate, worldwide attention for their works — thanks to the controversial 1928 film on which they collaborated, Un Chien Andalou — any mention or promotion of Garcia Lorca’s work was prohibited until 1953 by the Spanish government. Since then, however,Garcia Lorca has become regarded as one of Spain’s most beloved poets.
The love affair between Garcia Lorca and Dali was apparently ignited during a holiday they spent together in Dali’s hometown of Cadaques, Spain. While it is depicted in Little Ashes (the film’s title is taken from a poem Garcia Lorca wrote for Dali) as a chaste romance due to Garcia Lorca’s Catholic guilt and Dali’s sexually troubled past,* theirs was clearly a union of mind and heart.
Little Ashes is educational and sensual. Impressively directed by Paul Morrison (Solomon & Gaenor), it evokes the upper-class and sexually repressive atmosphere of E. M. Forster’s novel Maurice, as well as the poetry and passion of the film Like Water for Chocolate. The film’s intelligent, well-researched script is by first-time screenwriter Philippa Goslett.
* >:( Doesn't look promising for man-on-man action, does it. Repressed emotions can be pretty hot too, I suppose......again.
Brown Eyes:
--- Quote from: oilgun on April 14, 2009, 08:45:54 pm ---
* Doesn't look promising for man-on-man action, does it. Repressed emotions can be pretty hot too, I suppose......again.
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Thanks for posting that review Bud! It was interesting to read.
LOL, about steaminess... I recommend doing some Google image searches until you find the pics of the naked, underwater scene. They actually showed a very brief clip of that on the E!News segment that I saw. And, based on Javier Beltran's comment from the Out interview that (“We didn’t have any problems with the sexuality. On the set it was less important than the emotions. The sex scenes are beautiful—tragic and painful.”) there must be something.
But, yes, I guess we'll just have to wait and see. It could end up be terrible, but the whole subject of the film has at least caused me to become intrigued. And, whether or not it's terrible, I still give Pattison props from doing something like this on the heels of the fluffier teen movies.
Aloysius J. Gleek:
Look! Charles and Sebastian. Uh, no, it's--
(What a hoot--I'm there! Amanda, thank you so much for bringing it to our "collective intelligences"!)
Little Ashes
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(I just have to say--there will be quite a lot of Brokies in NY 05/08/09.... ::) )
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Ellemeno:
--- Quote from: southendmd on April 14, 2009, 08:39:59 am ---They can smite me any day. :)
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S'wonderful, s'marvelous, s'might be paradise.
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