Little Ashes Reviews
Urban Cinefile
A snapshot of an insight into the life of Salvador Dali, one of the most complex artists in history and it intensifies rather than satisfies our curiosity about him
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Windy City Times
A pleasurable, old fashioned gay romance with a good measure of art and politics tossed in between the passion.
Observer [UK]
It's reductive and overly schematic in the way movies about the literary and intellectual life tend to be.
I think you should go ahead and rent the movie.
Common Sense Media
Sensual, mature tale of young artists in 1920s Spain.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Little White Lies
Wretched and devastating rather than titillating, the pivotal homosexual love affair is beautifully and sensitively handled, resulting in an intense character piece throbbing with innovation and sexual repression.
| Original Score: 4/5
Digital Spy
It might be frolicky and slightly frivolous, but Little Ashes's Entourageian take on the lives of Spain's artistic elite has a fiery passion and some fine central performances.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Sky Movies
This is basically Costa Del Merchant-Ivory with the thickly accented British members of the cast appearing to have elocution lessons from Fawlty Towers' Manuel. Yet it's an intriguing story, well-served by some neat performances.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Total Film
Leaving questions dangling, this isn't the definitive take on Dalí art-lovers may crave. Still, shot on a shoestring, it's nevertheless a lush, involving period drama that proves there are other strings to Pattinson's bow.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Daily Mirror [UK]
Little Ashes is an arthouse film filled with bare bottoms, full-frontal nudity and gay passion. You can practically hear Pattinson's army of girl fans weeping into their popcorn.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Financial Times
Paul Morrison's evocation of the meeting in 1920s Madrid and subsequent tortuous relationship of the young Salvador Dalí, Luis Buñuel and Federico Garcia Lorca is such a labour of love that you forgive its incongruities.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Daily Express
It does boast a lavish recreation of the period, fabulous costumes, the rugged beauty of some prime European locations and enough torrid emotions to make for a captivating period piece.
ViewLondon
Engaging, beautifully shot and impressively acted drama, though it runs out of steam towards the end and lacks the courage of its convictions.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Little Ashes is absorbing but not compelling. Most of its action is inward.
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| Original Score: 3/4
Movie Dearest
Fascinating...impressively directed, with an extraordinary cast.
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| Original Score: A-
Sydney Morning Herald
It feels as though Morrison and Goslett are trying too hard to emulate the work of their subjects.
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| Original Score: 2/5
The Age (Australia)
The drawcard of Robert ''Twilight'' Pattinson as Dali is a mixed blessing for the filmmakers, given how ill-at-ease he is in the role. Javier Beltran, as Garcia Lorca, cast as the heroic centre of the film, cuts a more confident figure.
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| Original Score: 2/5
Old School Reviews
limps along about as lifelessly as one of Dali's melting clocks
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| Original Score: D+
