When we reviewed the star studded ‘Kill Your Darlings’ movie about the Beats Generation two years ago we wrote ‘young Dane DeHaan playing the extrovert Carr with a  career defining performance, stole every scene he was in.’  Since then DeHaan has been in great demand from ‘The Devils Knot’ to ‘The Amazing Spiderman’ etc., and he actually has five movies scheduled to be released next year alone.

This December however sees his possibly best performance to date with the opening of ‘Life’ the story of the relationship between the photographer Dennis Stock and the man whose photos he shot for a front cover story of Life Magazine who was none other than movie star heartthrob James Dean. Directed by Anton Corbijn (‘Control’, ‘A Most Wanted Man’) with Robert Pattinson playing Stock, the movie stars Dehaan as Dean.  

When the movie premiered at the Berlin Film Festival it received rave reviews especially for Dehaan. ‘Variety Magazine’ wrote ‘Makeup and mimicry can only take an actor so far when tasked with playing one of the most enduring stars in the cinematic firmament: More crucial is that he have a certain intangible star quality of his own. Such is the success of Dane DeHaan’s magnetic take on James Dean.’

Scheduled to be released in US movie theaters December 5th : we cannot wait.