DreamingOfEdward's Blog: Little Ashes

Wednesday, August 18, 2010

Robert Pattinson is sweet in "The Bad Mother's Handbook"

Before Robert Pattinson won the adoration the world's teenagers for playing Edward Cullen in "The Twilight Saga" franchise, he had already made his mark in film. His 2007 comedy-drama "The Bad Mother's Handbook" is finally due to be released on August 24.

Pattinson stars as Daniel Gale, a teen who is in love with Charlotte Cooper (Holly Grainger). However, things take an interesting turn for Daniel when he discovers Charlotte may be pregnant.

Meanwhile, as the nine months pass, the young man gets to know Charlotte's family, which includes her mother, Karen (Catherine Tate), who gave birth to her daughter when she was a teenager as well.

Although Pattinson is best known for starring in "Twilight," there are plenty of other films that fans of his work may enjoy. In fact, the tearjerker "Remember Me," which also stars Emilie de Ravin, was just released on DVD.

The talented performer also starred in the independent drama "Little Ashes," in which he played the renowned Spanish artist Salvador Dali.

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Tuesday, May 4, 2010

'Little Ashes' Awarded With "Audience Prize" at Italian Film Festival

SCHERMI D'AMORE 2010

The award winners at the International Festival of Film Melodrama

AUDIENCE PRIZE – THE SCHERMI D’AMORE ROSE

The Schermi d’Amore Rose goes to the film Little Ashes (Great Britain - Spain, 2009) directed by Paul Morrison.

This year it was once again the audience who awarded the prize at the 14th festival dedicated to romantic films and melodrama.

Winner of Schermi d’Amore in 1999 with Solomon and Gaenor, which had its world première in Verona, Paul Morrison’s was among the five foreign films nominated for Oscars the following year. Now the refined British director has once again been recognized for his talent with a biopic which takes him from Wales in the 1910s (the setting for Solomon and Gaenor) to the Spain of the 1920s, for a tragic love story. The tormented relationship between Federico García Lorca (1899-1936) and Salvador Dalí (1904-1989), which the painter – after the Andalusian dramatist’s execution by Franco’s supporters – kept secret until the final years of his life. The Surrealist genius – played by Robert Pattinson before starring in Twilight – is portrayed during his university years, torn between his attraction for the author of Sonnets of Dark Love and his desire for fame and fortune, which would take him to Paris with the director Luis Buñuel (1900-1983), the third legendary Spanish figure with whom he would create the famous short, Un chien andalou (1929).

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