Tampa Theatre begins screening Little Ashes, a film about the more-than-friendship between surrealist painter Salvador Dali and poet Federico Garcia Lorca, this weekend. Showtimes tonight, Saturday and Sunday are preceeded by talks by Dali Museum staffers, including director Hank Hine (Saturday). Twilight heartthrob Robert Pattinson plays Dali, and the film's trailer promises a titillating mix of flamboyant artistic tempers, fragile egos and underwater eroticism. As Lorca fans know, this story doesn't have a happy ending.
Megan Voeller is Creative Loafing’s visual art critic. She teaches at the University of Tampa and blogs at Artsqueeze.com.
This article appears in May 13-19, 2009.