Dust

2001 [MACEDONIAN]

Drama / Romance / Western

4
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 20% · 15 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 62% · 1K ratings
IMDb Rating 6.3/10 10 2506 2.5K

Director

Milcho Manchevski Photo
Milcho Manchevski

Top cast

Vera Farmiga Photo
Vera Farmiga as Amy
Rosemary Murphy Photo
Rosemary Murphy as Angela
David Wenham Photo
David Wenham as Luke
Meg Gibson Photo
Meg Gibson as Bone
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1.11 GB
1280*720
English 2.0
NR
us  
23.976 fps
2 hr 4 min
Seeds 2
2.07 GB
1920*1080
English 2.0
NR
us  
23.976 fps
2 hr 4 min
Seeds 6

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by ma-cortes 6 / 10

A complex , bewildering film with various intertwined stories and mainly set in Macedonia during the decline of the Ottoman Empire

A New York thief named (Adrian Lester) robs at a New York apartment where he meets a tough-as-nails hundred-year-old woman (Rosemary Murphy) . Along the way , two sharp-shooting brothers Elijah (Joseph Fiennes) and Luke (David Wenham) from the Wild West are confronted by the love of a woman, ex-prostitute called Lilith (Anne Brochet) , a Macedonian revolutionary and a beautiful pregnant woman, all cross paths in a tale that spans two continents and three centuries . And Luke finds his calling as a brutal bounty hunter and Elijah shows but rarely , solemnly hunting Luke .¨Dust¨ is a twisted , glossy and complex drama with violence , emotion , strong confrontations and shootouts . This very wild eastern western bears an uncanny resemblance to that supposedly extinguished early entity , the Euro-pudding and following a Spaghetti Western style . This work stands out in world cinema for its unique way of playing with space, time and emotion . Biblical in scope , Babel-like in execution , it is a sprawling vengeance saga starring Joseph Finnes and David Wenham as Elijah and Luke , sharp-shooting brothers from the old Wild West who fall out over a woman and high-tail in turn to the post-Ottoman turmoil of Macedonia . These two trigger-happy gunslingers are interlaced with a triangular love story on a married prostitute , a revolutionary hell-bent on liberating Macedonia from the Ottoman Empire , The Teacher , and a beautiful pregnant woman . The film shows a difficult flick with peculiar roles in which all cross paths in a tale that spans two continents and three centuries , including some historical events as the strong repression turks executed againt Greek population. Almost as soon as the Greek revolution began, there were large scale massacres of civilians ordered by Ottoman authorities. Turkish army massacred Jews, Muslims, and Christians suspected of anti-Ottoman sympathies alike, mainly in the Peloponnese and Attica where Greek forces were dominant. The Turks massacred Greeks identified with the revolution, especially in Anatolia, Crete, Constantinople, Cyprus, Macedonia and the Aegean islands. They also massacred unarmed Greeks in places which did not revolt . ¨Dust¨displays fractured narrative resembling an abstract painting. This muffled is further fractured by its failing narrator , a present-day ancient woman called Angela - finely played by veteran Rosemary Murphy- whose N. Y. apartment Edge/Adrian Lester makes the mistake of attempting to burgle . The ambition might be a magical layering and merging of tales , lives and eras , but the effect is surprising crush. Main and support caste are pretty good with plenty of known actors such as Joseph Fiennes , David Wenham , Adrian Lester , Anne Brochet , Rosemary Murphy , Matt Ross and brief appearance by then unknown Vera Farmiga. In the film Luke/David Wenham meets Sigmund Freud on the boat from America , Pablo Picasso at a gallery opening in Paris and even comic-books hero Corto Maltes at a stand-off against Turks .The motion picture was original but intricately made by Manchevski and it opened Venice 2001. He and crew did extensive research on the Wild West, the Ottoman Empire and events at the turn of the 20th century as preparation for the historical half of Dust. Milcho Manchevski's acclaimed ¨Before the Rain¨ is considered "one of the greatest debut feature films in the history of cinema" and "one of the most important films of the decade". Manchevski continues down his distinctive artistic path with the award-winning features Dust , Shadows, Mothers, Bikini Moon, Willow, the short forms The End of Time, Thursday, Macedonia Timeless, 1.73 , Arrested Development's Tennessee and an episode of HBO's The Wire, among others . Rating : 6.5/10 . Well worth watching.
Reviewed by ivica83 7 / 10

eastern western and the connection to tim burton

the movies that manchevski writes and directs share some things with tim burton's movies. all right, their contents are completely different, BUT the style with which they are made follow similar patterns: 1. you ALWAYS have to read between the lines in order to get the whole story; 2. the characters are never the stereotypes of modern cinema - their real motives are hard to grasp, unless you think about it; 3. the visuals are stunning; 4. there are always time issues (in manchevski's films much more explicitly than in burton's films). ok, that said, you really have to see this movie in order to get how the concept of eastern western and subliminal time travel can be incorporated into one movie without the feeling that the connection has been forced. the acting is nice, not oscar material, but right on the spot in capturing the confusion of the characters (although the first 10 minutes have some genuine bad acting). overall, i would give this movie 9.5/10, because the idea is 11/10.
Reviewed by anthonygroce 6 / 10

Dust, exactly what it is

A modern western that interestingly takes us between Turkey in the early 1900's, to modern day New York, New York. DUST brings a well rounded story with unique characters and beautiful scenery to the table, while maintaining a flow between smooth contentedness and shocking chaos. The structure of the narrative is built to keep our attention, creating suspense and leading us to want answers. Problems still exist. One is the overuse of story to reality dualism that completely undermines the reality that the film worked so hard to construct. Violent realism is a shock, showing us the sadistic personalities of this film world in the East. We see many relationships between characters that are very questionable, but still understandable. We are left to ponder (and roll our eyes) upon the happy ending within the sad, yet realistic world. Everything is tied up in the end, but something else interesting occurs. The entire narration of the film is undermined. We are left to question our trust in the truth of the narrator's words. Did this story, which gave these oddly connected characters reasons for being together actually happen the way we were told, did it happen at all? This little twist is the main weapon in the movies arsenal, curving at least one side of an analytical movie-goer's lip towards a smile. It is intelligent and creative in aspects and yet uses stereotypical Hollywood-like conventions that weaken it's good attributes. It ain't bad, but it also ain't the best film I've ever seen. I do believe it to be a much better film than Manchevski's first film, Before the Rain. He is growing.
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