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14 of 18 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
A story that touches your soul,
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This review is from: Dust [DVD] [2002] (DVD)
Every now and then there is a movie that is beyond evaluation. There is no logical reason why this film should have such an impact but it does. You are part of the story with out even realizing it until the credits roll by at the end. Than all you can do is sit there. A dying old lady dying in today's world tells a tail of two brothers in the old west who cross paths and purposes as in most families. We have love, and bullies, and wars. What seems like a fantastic tail that intrigues the listener turns out to be more real than he imagined. Now the listener is on a mission part of which is to carry on the story. And you must carry it from there.
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Technique in search of a poetic.,
By Quackser (Ireland) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Dust [DVD] [2002] (DVD)
An old woman tells her story to the burglar she holds at gunpoint in her rundown New York apartment. The story takes us from the wild West to Macedonia, dipping in and out of the present day, gradually revealing itself as a story about the act of storytelling itself.
At least that's what I think the writer/director had in mind. But really he seems to have become intoxicated by having the kind of budget that allows for location shooting in New York (he includes more "Yes, we really shot in New York" montage sequences than I've seen since the heyday of the Italian zombie film) and modest but prolonged action sequences that seem more interested in showing squibs exploding bloodily through clothing than in who might be wearing that clothing. Over all this he tries to drape a patina of "cleverness" (one extended shoot out set at the turn of the last century features "The Ride of the Valkyries", complete with helicopter sound effects on the soundtrack) and, as noted, some half thought-out Neil Gaiman Lite coyness about the "magic" of telling a story. Characters are lost in this mess. The idea of two western gunslingers stalking each other around war-torn Macedonia sounds very interesting, but the filmic imagination needed to alchemise this particular bag of ingredients into something greater than the sum of its parts is sadly missing. What we have here is a director becoming drunk on himself (an interesting idea for a movie, that!) bringing us into the world of his imagination but revealing less, rather than more, the deeper inside that world we get. I was reminded of Carlos Ruiz Zafón's book "The Shadow of the Wind", which helps itself to a bunch of similar toys and also doesn't know what the hell to do with them. But if you were fooled by that book, you might find yourself equally clutching this film to the place where your heart ought to be.
12 of 20 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
The Couscous Eastern,
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This review is from: Dust [DVD] [2002] (DVD)
Dont expect to watch a straightforward western, and dont be misled by the synopses of this film.It opens with Adrian Lester ransacking an appartment (Later befriending his victim) She tells him a story, about, what may or may not be her parentage. Inbetween flash backs the modern story unfolds, which can be a times a little distracting. An unorthadox begruding freindship springs up between the two, and I have to wonder whether this is a parrallel to the story the old woman tells. The DVD lists Fiennes as the main character Elijah, he isnt. The film is about Luke (David Wenham), who is the main protagonist, and the stories revolve around him, and the relationships he makes with those around him. The film looks and feels tired out, worn down and dry. The violence is distant, and in the case of the turks, comical. Although cleverly put together, and several years in the writing, its a hard view, and an unrewarding one. Although the review on The IMDb database sings the praise of David Wenham (which I begrudgingly agree with). In my opinion he is only as good as the material he is given, (Faramir in LOTR) for example. If offers no historical information, and the viewer is left with a sense of emptiness. The characters are somewhat distant, and un-ingaging.
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