Sunday, September 16, 2012
MEN IN LOVE
Today's film was the tri-biopic
with Javier Beltran, James McNulty and the infamous Robert Pattinson.
They play the "real life" triangle of Federico García Lorca, Luis Bunuel and Salvador Dali. In their youth. Before they got baked into their life's personas.
Each repressed in his own way, it is the young Lorca who blooms and becomes a national icon before he is hauled away by fascist thugs and executed 8 years after these events.
Bunuel, of course, became a great film director. I have seen most of his films. Dali, well, became Dali.
It is a little hard to discern what this is about. It is certainly about great affection, possibly love, between young men and the physical attractions involved. Neither Bunuel or Dali can return Lorca's physical passion but the idea of wanting it is powerfully sexy and this is well demonstrated in the film which is partly flawed in that it dwells a little long on the young Dali's eccentricities and Bunuel's homophobic panic. Well, Dali's also.
There are beautiful scenes and great music. The young actors who are not spanish stumble some on the accents. I had not seen Pattinson before. He looks better here and this was possibly a good career move for him. Widen the horizons. But they could have been widened a little less.
I enjoyed the film. Relived the sad and tragic ending of Lorca once again. I will give it a 3 out of Netflix5.
Labels: best films, gay films
