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Robert Plays: Art
Additional Cast: Powell Jones, Johnny White, Mike Pearce, Jeremy Hardy, Rebecca Pidgeon, Michael Irving
Director: Oliver Irving
Release Date: 2009
Producers: Scott Bassett, Justin Kelly and Michael Williams
Genre: Comedy, Drama
CINEMA RELEASE:
- Las Vegas International Film Festival
Friday, April 10, 7:20pm
Las Vegas, Nevada
Oliver and Joe attending - Los Angeles How To Be Tour Screening, Laemmle's Monica 4-Plex
Tuesday April 14 at 8:00pm
Oliver and Joe attending - California Independent Film Festival in Livermore
Opening Night! Thursday, April 16
Livermore, California
Oliver and Joe attending - Orlando How To Be Tour Screening, Athens Theatre
Friday April 17 at 8:00pm
Oliver, Joe, Mike and Johnny attending - Tallahassee Film Festival
Saturday April 18
Oliver, Joe, Mike and Johnny attending - Nashville Film Festival
Sunday April 19 at 7:00pm
Oliver, Joe, Mike and Johnny attending - Minneapolis-St Paul International Film Festival
Monday April 20 at 7:00pm
Oliver, Joe, Mike and Johnny attending - Chicago How To Be Tour Screening, Music Box Theatre
Wednesday April 22 at 8:00pm
Oliver, Joe, Mike and Johnny attending - Boston How To Be Tour Screening, The Coolidge Corner Theatre
Thursday April 23 at 9:30pm
Oliver, Joe, Mike and Johnny attending - New York How To Be Tour Screenings, IFC Center
Friday April 24 & Saturday April 25 at 11:55pm
Oliver, Joe, Mike and Johnny attending - Asia Premiere: Singapore Film Festival
Saturday April 25 at 11:30am
Producer Justin Kelly attending - First Glance Hollywood Film Festival
May 2 at 5:30pm (SOLD OUT) and May 3 at 1:00pm
Los Angeles, California
SYNOPSIS
Madrid in 1922 is a city wavering on the edge of change as traditional values are challenged by the dangerous new influences of jazz, Freud and the avant-garde. Salvador Dalí arrives at university at the age of 18 years old, determined to become a great artist. His bizarre blend of shyness and rampant exhibitionism attracts the attention of two of the university’s social elite — Federico García Lorca and Luis Buñuel.
Salvador is absorbed into their decadent group and for a time he, Luis and Federico become a formidable trio, the most ultra-modern group in Madrid. However, as time passes, Salvador feels an increasingly strong pull toward the charismatic Federico — who is oblivious to the attention he is getting from his beautiful writer friend, Magdalena. Finally, in the face of his friends’ preoccupations — and Federico’s growing renown as a poet — Luis sets off for Paris in search of his own artistic success.
Alone in Madrid, Federico struggles against his psyche, tortured by the damning implications of his own religious beliefs and the undeniable voice of his flesh. He is haunted by news of Salvador, who is collaborating on a Surrealist film with Luis and has embarked on an affair with Gala, a married woman.
By 1936 Spain is teetering on the precipice of civil war, and Federico, now a highly acclaimed and controversial playwright, receives an invitation to dinner from Salvador and Gala. But the hosts have a rather unusual agenda and the evening is a disaster. A week later, Salvador is hosting a party when he discovers that Federico has been assassinated in the outbreak of war. The walls of self-denial that surround the artist come crashing down as he realizes, too late, the depth of his love for Federico.
ROBERT'S CHARACTER
Art has been floating since completing a dull degree that means very little to him. He stays at his girlfriend Jessicas apartment and dreams of being a singer-songwriter. Tired of Arts lack of direction, Jessica breaks up with him, and Art moves back in with his parents, who are less than thrilled with the idea.
His music career is going nowhere fast and, while working shifts at a supermarket and volunteering at an adult care centre, Art feels he has hit an all-time low. Deep down, he knows that things could be much worse, but something about his naïve spirit allows his depression to grow deeper until he discovers the book Its Not Your Fault in a bookstores self-help section
MEMORABLE QUOTES
Jeremy: You know, they do anything to be in a position at your age.
Art: I know. That's why I am volunteering. Giving my time, to help the community.
Mother: I've moved back in. For a while. Back home.
Art: Well, it was just a matter of time. Look, I really got to go. Please try to not make a mess of things.
Jeremy: You know, they do anything to be in a position at your age.
Art: I know. That's why I am volunteering. Giving my time, to help the community.
Mother: Why are you smiling?
Art: I got a surprise for you and dad.
Mother: Don't say that dear.
Art: Mum, Dad, This is Dr. Ellington. He's going to make me be more normal. He's very, very famous. Very, very successful.
Art: I want my personal therapist here during any formal discussion.
Jeremy: You have a personal therapist?
TRIVIA
The song in the trailer is the 'Hammond Song' by The Roches.
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