Robert Pattinson success as Edward Cullen in “Twilight” has breathed new life into “How to Be,” an independent film Rob made in Britain prior to becoming a worldwide sensation.
Pattinson plays Art, a so-so singer/songwriter who is having a self-proclaimed quarter-life crisis and seeks help from a Canadian self-help guru. It’s all about living through an existential moment, and Rob displays more range as an actor than he was able to do in the vampire role.
The British film is billed as a wry coming-of-age comedy about twenty-something Art who gets dumped by his girlfriend, loses his job and is forced to move back in with his parents.
Art uses a small inheritance to try to figure himself out, and seeks out assorted new age therapies until he meets up with an eccentric self-help guru, Dr. Ellington (Powell Jones).
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Though Dr Ellington sets out to help Art with his own personal brand of psycho-babble, he seems slightly obsessive-compulsive and his teachings so regimented that they are difficult for Art to come to grips with.
Ronny (Johnny White), a pivotal character in the film, is one of Art’s oldest (and only) friends, Ronny is fast becoming agoraphobic. He stays holed up in his flat paid for by his dad who doesn’t want Ronny around him and his new girlfriend. So he spends the day in daze of nitrous oxide, listening to electro music.
Ronny loves winding Art up, and the two tend to bicker in the way only old friends can. He decides to give Art a kick-start by forming a band — as long as it involves going no further outside than his flat’s roof garden. Ronny strongly disapproves of Art’s preoccupation with Dr Ellington.
Arts journey, painfully funny at times, exposes his dysfunctional relationship with his parents and the importance in his life of his odd-ball friends. "How To Be" is a frustrated creativity and self-help, which seems appropriate to the tough economic times we live in when so many people Rob’s age are forced to defer their dreams and set their sights lower.
A sub-theme of the movie is also about having “realistic” career options, not even his family wants to share is his aspirations to be a singer/songwriter. As an added bonus, Pattinson plays the guitar and sings three original songs in the movie.
”How To Be” is currently playing in theaters on its U.S. Tour and at festivals worldwide. It will be showing on IFC Festival Direct in the United States for three months from April 29. Worldwide release will follow.
IFC Festival Direct can be found within your cable provider’s movies on demand selections.
The soundtrack, featuring three tracks by Pattinson and the original score, will be released on CD and Digital Download April 28. You can pre-order the CD now from Dreamboat Records
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