Ask the Dust (2006)

Diretor:

Robert Towne

Escritores (WGA):

Robert Towne (screenplay)
John Fante (novel)

Data de Lançamento:

13 Abril 2006 (Thailand)

Gênero:

Drama | Romance

Chamada:

Passion and ambition drive two dreamers in 1930s LA. Their love affair is ferocious and hot-blooded as they fight the city and themselves to make their dreams come true.

Argumento:

Mexican beauty Camilla hopes to rise above her station by marrying a wealthy American. That is complicated by meeting Arturo Bandini, a first-generation Italian hoping to land a writing career and a blue-eyed blonde on his arm.

Plot Keywords:

Poverty | Racism | 1930s | Italian | Sex On The Beach

Prêmios:

1 nomination

Comentários dos utilizadores:

Wandering dust

Elenco

Colin Farrell	...	Arturo Bandini
Salma Hayek	...	Camilla
Donald Sutherland	...	Hellfrick
Eileen Atkins	...	Mrs. Hargraves
Idina Menzel	...	Vera Rivkin
Justin Kirk	...	Sammy
Jeremy Crutchley	...	Solomon
Ronald France	...	Columbia Sweeper
Dion Basco	...	Filipino Houseboy
Donna Mosley	...	Red Headed Girl
Paul Rylander	...	Harold the Bartender
Natasha Staples	...	Denver Librarian
Wayne Harrison	...	Heilman
Yasuhiro Yoshimura	...	Japanese Vegetable Man (as Yoshimura Yasuhiro)
Sid	...	Willie the Dog

MPAA:

Rated R or some sexuality, nudity and language.

Duração:

117 min

País:

USA

Língua:

Inglês | Espanhol

Cor:

Cor

Aspect Ratio:

1,85 : 1

Som:

Dolby Digital | DTS

Certificação:

Canada:14A (Ontario) | UK:15 | Ireland:15A | Singapore:R21 | Argentina:13 | Hong Kong:IIB | USA:R (certificate #41719) | Netherlands:AL | Germany:12 | Brazil:16 | Finland:K-11 | Australia:M | South Korea:15 | Philippines:R-18 | Iceland:16 | USA:R

Locais de filmagem:

Cape Town, South Africa

Companhia :

Paramount Pictures

Pegadinha:

Willie the Dog is played by Danny Finn, whose owner had to stand in for the film company's dog-handler, who could not get Danny pay attention. (Danny is not a professional actor.)

Goofs:

Erros que se revelam: In the beach scene, before sunset, the ocean is on the left, and the shadows are stretching towards the camera. This cannot happen in L.A., where the ocean is in the west and sun is in the south. This reveals that these shots were taken on South Africa's west coast, where the sun is north of the zenith.

Citações:

Arturo Bandini: What does happiness mean to you Camilla?
Camilla: That you can fall in love with whoever you want to, and not feel ashamed of it.

Filme Connections:

Referências The Sin of Nora Moran (1933)

Tilha Sonora:

Blue Drag

Wandering dust

This is a movie that demonstrates that mood and music and texture aren't enough to make a good film. Sure, the viewer is treated to numerous fine scenes of Los Angeles in the thirties--I especially liked the view of the trolley approaching the tunnel, and the tram rising up the hillside--but in a sense this fine cinematography is self-defeating, because it creates a mood that "something's going to happen"--and nothing does. The script too keeps feinting toward some plot or action or trauma--and time after time not delivering. Not even delivering the (I assume) theme of the movie, the characters' essential misfit. The lead actors, both too pretty for their roles, didn't convey any repression or agony, and the script didn't expose us to any.

Now, Donald Sutherland? That's another story. His character was so well fashioned, so perfectly played, that I wanted the camera to follow him.