Ask the Dust
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Mixed or average reviews- based on 14 Ratings
- Starring: Colin Farrell, Salma Hayek
- Summary: Adapted from a novel by John Fante, Robert Towne's Ask the Dust stars Colin Farrell as Arturo Bandini, a young writer who comes to Los Angeles during the Great Depression to write a novel.
- Director: Robert Towne
- Genre(s): Drama, Romance
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Positive: 16 out of 33
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Mixed: 14 out of 33
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Negative: 3 out of 33
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91Ask the Dust is more than an amorous period piece. It's a strongly bitter, strongly sweet poem in prose and motion.
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80More than anything else, Ask the Dust feels like a compendium of desires - for a city, for a woman, for youth.
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60A curiously resistable drama, despite several strong elements - the most notable being newcomer Idina Menzel.
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38This story, like many of Towne's own, does not come with a happy ending. Or beginning, for that matter, because it's almost immediately clear that Ask the Dust bites the dust -- his dream movie is stillborn.
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Positive: 5 out of 11
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Mixed: 2 out of 11
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Negative: 4 out of 11
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EmaT.10Great film, so faithful to the book, Salma Hayek steals the movie, already a strong contender for next year's oscars. Her best performance yet.
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MiguelV.8It was the film that led me to reading the book
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PeteM.7
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FredD.4
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