QCA Film: Little Ashes

Wow… this is probably the worst trailer for a seemingly good film ever. Needless narration, over-the-top emotional music, and meaningless phrases (“No Rules! No Regrets! No Return!”). It’s an art movie for fucks’ sakes, not The Last Action Hero.
Madrid, 1922: Spain’s traditional values of religious morality, art, and aristocracy find themselves under-minded by the new influences of jazz, Freud and the avant-garde. Salvador Dalí arrives at university at the age of 18 years old, determined to become a great artist. His bizarre blend of shyness and rampant exhibitionism attracts the attention of two of the university’s social elite—Federico García Lorca and Luis Buñuel. But Federico struggles against his own psyche, tortured by the damning implications of his own religious beliefs and the undeniable voice of his flesh. He is haunted by news of Salvador, who is collaborating on a Surrealist film with Luis and has embarked on an affair with Gala, a married woman. (SOURCE)
Twilight’s Robert Pattinson plays painter Dali in Little Ashes, a film that explores his relationship with gay poet Lorca (played by Javier Beltran). The director’s statement from the Little Ashes website says, “The audience, with García Lorca, will fall in love with the shy and brilliant Dalí, and be captivated by his sensitivity and vulnerability hidden behind his poses and charades. We admire and fear for him in his outrageousness. Later, we fear more for García Lorca as we realize that Dalí’s masks have become his face, that he has begun to believe in his act, and that the pair’s love is becoming the victim of Dalí’s narcissism and ambition.”
Two short clips from the film, after the jump!