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Dust (2003)

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Reviews Counted:14

Fresh:3

Rotten:11

Average Rating:3.9/10

Runtime: 2 hrs 7 mins

Genre: Dramas

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

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There's something off-putting about the bloodthirsty relish with which violence is choreographed and photographed, whilst Fiennes is hopelessly miscast as the avenging preacher.

Full Review Source: BBC | comment Comment
08/08/02
Tom Dawson
Tom Dawson
BBC
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The film lacks coherent characters, relationships you can care about and an intelligible plot.

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11/10/02
Christopher Tookey
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08/12/02
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12/15/03
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01/26/06
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In reaching for a cubist style of storytelling, [Manchevski] sacrifices character and motivation.

Full Review Source: Village Voice | comment Comment
08/19/03
Leslie Camhi
Leslie Camhi
Village Voice

Manchevski stumbles headlong into a tangle of mismatched tones and plot points.

Full Review Source: L.A. Weekly | comment Comment
08/20/03
Hazel-Dawn Dumpert
Hazel-Dawn Dumpert
L.A. Weekly

The two eras presented in this film may display similar violent dispositions but ultimately their overriding sensibilities are just too different to integrate.

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08/31/03
Barbara Goslawski
Barbara Goslawski
Boxoffice Magazine

The bloodthirsty Dust lurches so wildly and meaninglessly between genres and time frames that all it creates is motion sickness.

Full Review Source: New York Post | comment Comment
08/21/03
Megan Lehmann
Megan Lehmann
New York Post

The chaotic, brutal iconography of Italian Westerns is put to novel use in this time-traveling, self-referential, hugely ambitious story.

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08/21/03
Maitland McDonagh
Maitland McDonagh
TV Guide's Movie Guide

Dazzling and dazed.

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08/21/03
Elvis Mitchell
Elvis Mitchell
New York Times
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our brains are numbed into oblivion

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11/25/03
Christopher Null
Christopher Null
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Una genial muestra de fracturas narrativas.

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08/07/02
Alex Ramirez
Alex Ramirez
Cinenganos

A picture this long and dense should work harder to be cogent and coherent.

Full Review Source: Christian Science Monitor | comment Comment
08/21/03
David Sterritt
David Sterritt
Christian Science Monitor

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.

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08/21/03
Kevin Thomas
Kevin Thomas
Los Angeles Times
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It's a clumsy, pretentious, dull movie -- the kind that thinks it's way more important than it is.

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