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Dust (2003)
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Reviews Counted:14
Fresh:3
Rotten:11
Average Rating:3.9/10
Synopsis: Feuding gunslinger brothers Elijah (Joseph Fiennes) and Luke (David Wenham) are the focus of Macedonian director Milcho Manchevski's DUST. The brothers have a Cain-and-Abel relationship that... Feuding gunslinger brothers Elijah (Joseph Fiennes) and Luke (David Wenham) are the focus of Macedonian director Milcho Manchevski's DUST. The brothers have a Cain-and-Abel relationship that finally comes to a head when Bible-quoting Elijah marries a French prostitute with whom Luke has an affair. Luke tries to escape his brother, and his guilty conscience, by fleeing as a mercenary to Macedonia, where his personal quest for internal peace gets tangled up by the local struggle against the Turks of the Ottoman Empire. Manchevski tells the wild-west (by way of Macedonia) story of Elijah and Luke entirely in flashback, as elderly Lilith (Anne Brochet) recounts her family story to Edge (Adrian Lester), whom she has caught burglarizing her 21st-century New York City apartment. Cutting back and forth between the two time periods, Manchevski uses hallucinatory visuals and surreal images to both put the audience into the unraveling perspective of guilt-ridden Luke and approximate the fluctuating qualities of an old woman's memories. [More]
Starring: Joseph Fiennes, David Wenham, Anne Brochet, Adrian Lester
Starring: Joseph Fiennes, David Wenham, Anne Brochet, Adrian Lester, Eric Colvin, Vera Farmiga, Nikolina Kujaca, Rosemary Murphy
Director: Milcho Manchevski
Director: Milcho Manchevski
Screenwriter: Milcho Manchevski
Studio: Lions Gate Films
Reviews for Dust
The two eras presented in this film may display similar violent dispositions but ultimately their overriding sensibilities are just too different to integrate.
It's a clumsy, pretentious, dull movie -- the kind that thinks it's way more important than it is.
The bloodthirsty Dust lurches so wildly and meaninglessly between genres and time frames that all it creates is motion sickness.
The chaotic, brutal iconography of Italian Westerns is put to novel use in this time-traveling, self-referential, hugely ambitious story.
Dust is a bust, a big bad movie of the scope, ambition and bravura that could be made only by a talented filmmaker run amok.
A picture this long and dense should work harder to be cogent and coherent.
Manchevski stumbles headlong into a tangle of mismatched tones and plot points.
In reaching for a cubist style of storytelling, [Manchevski] sacrifices character and motivation.
The film lacks coherent characters, relationships you can care about and an intelligible plot.
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