Katapult Film Sales has acquired international sales rights for LITTLE ASHES, produced by Factotum Barcelona, Aria Films, APT Films & Met Film. The Spanish Co-production about the life and loves of Federico Garcia Lorca and Salvador Dali, started shooting in Barcelona on September 10th. Oscar nominated Paul Morrison (Wondrous Oblivion, Solomon & Gaenor) will direct. Javier Beltran, Robert Pattinson and Matthew McNulty star.
Madrid 1922. A city wavering on the edge of change as traditional values are challenged by the dangerous new influences of Jazz, Freud and the avant-garde. Salvador Dalí arrives at university: 18 years old and 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.
Salvador is absorbed into their decadent group and for a time Salvador, Luis and Federico become a formidable trio, the most ultra-modern group in Madrid. However as time passes, Salvador feels an increasingly strong pull towards the charismatic Federico – who is himself oblivious of the attentions he is getting from his beautiful writer friend, Margarita. Finally, in the face of his friends’ preoccupations – and Federico’s growing renown as a poet – Luis sets off for Paris in search of his own artistic success.
Federico and Salvador spend the holiday in the sea-side town of Cadaques. Both the idyllic surroundings and the warmth of the Dalí family sweep Federico off his feet. Salvador and he draw closer, sharing their deepest beliefs, inspirations and secrets, convinced that they have found a kind of friendship undreamt of by others. It is more than a meeting of the minds; it is a fusion of souls. And then one night, in the phosphorescent water, it becomes something else…
ROBERT PATTINSON (Cedric Diggery; Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire) takes the role of Salvador Dali with rising Spanish actor;
JAVIER BELTRAN as Federico Garcia Lorca, whose friendship and love for Dali forms the central part of the screenplay;
MATTHEW MCNULTY, whose performance in the now Edinburgh FF winner "Control" has been getting rave reviews everywhere, plays Dali friend and filmmaking collaborator Luis Bunuel; and
MARINA GATELL plays Margarita
|
