Twi-hards hoping for another totally dreamy Robert Pattison turn will have to look further than this drama about Spanish artist Salvador Dali's younger days. Not only is Dali a self-conscious edotist with a penchant for extreme acts, but he's also engaged in a twisted love affair with the great Spanish poet, Federico Garcia Lorca, sensitively played by Javier Beltran.
Pattison's not bad, channelling the same self-loathing and sense of otherness that Twilight fans so fancied, although the mock Spanish accent slips and slides. But the film does Lorca a disservice in painting him as a conformist until Dali pushed him from his comfort zone, and gives Dali a pass regarding his Franco-friendly politics. Still, look out for Beltran in the future, and rejoice that the current hot young thing can act.
