My latest GILF is Frederico García Lorca. No doubt I have something of a penchant for dark and brooding poets, with Romantic deaths and a taste for bow ties. I also find the Sonnets of Dark Love unbelievably sexy. In the intense 'Night of Sleepless Love', Lorca addresses his lover, the young student Rafael Rodríguez Rapún, in a very dark version of an aubade. (Dark here is usually taken to mean 'homosexual' but Lorca plays with the image of light beautifully; a lovely queering of Othello/Romeo and Juliet?)Dawn married us on the bed,
our mouths to the unfrozen spout
of unstaunched blood.
The sun came through the shuttered balcony
and the coral of life opened its branches
over my shrouded heart.
Frozen spout, indeed. Anyway, of course I am not (solely) interested in the high-brow. Pop-culture slut-bag as I am, I am really only able to understand the gilfitude of Lorca through the medium of film. Tickets for the new biopic Little Ashes went on sale today, and the film charts the love affair between Lorca and Salvador Dalí, with a little bit of Luis Buñuel thrown in for good measure.
Dali and Lorca
The film stars Robert Pattinson (of Twilight fame) as Dalí, and Matthew McNulty as Lorca. McNulty is no stranger to the biopic, having starred as a rather Frankestein-ish Ian Curtis in Control, nor is his tongue a stranger to the face of Sugar Rush's Olivia Hallinan, whom he macked on in Lark-Rise to Candleford. Anyway, now I guess he'll be shoving his tongue in the Diggory.
I am always suspicious that these queerifiying movies are going to cop out instead of copping off, and there was latitude for them to do that. Dalí repeatedly claimed that, although Lorca 'was madly in love with me' and 'tried to screw me twice', it hurt too much and 'nothing came of it'. To me, this doesn't really ring true. Firstly, I don't understand why Lorca would try to put the ostensibly-straight Dalí in the passive role (although I can't wait for Pattinson to act that one out). And secondly, in a typically contradictory mood he suggests that they did indeed do it: fast and nasty. Dalí felt flattered by Lorca's attentions and 'deep down I felt that he was a great poet and that I owe him a tiny bit of the Divine Dali's asshole.' Deep down, indeed.
Happily, it sounds as though the film is really running with it, and Cedric Diggory in the GQ interview says that he shot an 'extremely hard-core sex scene' with Javier Beltran, and there's some synchronised fucking between the leads in a beautiful E. M Forster/Swimming Pool Library bathing scene. Plus, Pattinson revealed that in one bit, Lorca, frustrated by not being able to fuck Dalí sleeps with a mutual female friend while Salvador just wanks tearfully in a corner. I know I say this in every fit crit, but triangular desire MUCH?
Thus, in conclusion, Little Ashes sounds like a riot. But my god, this is a booger trailer if ever I saw one. They make Dalí look like Mo Mowlam. I'll probably still see it anyway. But first I have Brideshead to catch up on. Adíos.
Dali and Lorca
The film stars Robert Pattinson (of Twilight fame) as Dalí, and Matthew McNulty as Lorca. McNulty is no stranger to the biopic, having starred as a rather Frankestein-ish Ian Curtis in Control, nor is his tongue a stranger to the face of Sugar Rush's Olivia Hallinan, whom he macked on in Lark-Rise to Candleford. Anyway, now I guess he'll be shoving his tongue in the Diggory.
I am always suspicious that these queerifiying movies are going to cop out instead of copping off, and there was latitude for them to do that. Dalí repeatedly claimed that, although Lorca 'was madly in love with me' and 'tried to screw me twice', it hurt too much and 'nothing came of it'. To me, this doesn't really ring true. Firstly, I don't understand why Lorca would try to put the ostensibly-straight Dalí in the passive role (although I can't wait for Pattinson to act that one out). And secondly, in a typically contradictory mood he suggests that they did indeed do it: fast and nasty. Dalí felt flattered by Lorca's attentions and 'deep down I felt that he was a great poet and that I owe him a tiny bit of the Divine Dali's asshole.' Deep down, indeed.Happily, it sounds as though the film is really running with it, and Cedric Diggory in the GQ interview says that he shot an 'extremely hard-core sex scene' with Javier Beltran, and there's some synchronised fucking between the leads in a beautiful E. M Forster/Swimming Pool Library bathing scene. Plus, Pattinson revealed that in one bit, Lorca, frustrated by not being able to fuck Dalí sleeps with a mutual female friend while Salvador just wanks tearfully in a corner. I know I say this in every fit crit, but triangular desire MUCH?
Thus, in conclusion, Little Ashes sounds like a riot. But my god, this is a booger trailer if ever I saw one. They make Dalí look like Mo Mowlam. I'll probably still see it anyway. But first I have Brideshead to catch up on. Adíos.
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