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Ask the Dust (2006) -- 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.
Ask the Dust (2006) -- 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.
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Overview

User Rating:
5.8/10   4,131 votes
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Director:
Robert Towne
Writers (WGA):
Robert Towne (screenplay)
John Fante (novel)
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Release Date:
13 April 2006 (Thailand) more
Genre:
Drama | Romance more
Tagline:
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.
Plot:
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. full summary | add synopsis
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1 nomination more
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Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

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
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Additional Details

MPAA:
Rated R or some sexuality, nudity and language.
Runtime:
117 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English | Spanish
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Dolby Digital | DTS
Filming Locations:
Cape Town, South Africa more

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Trivia:
Writer/director Robert Towne became interested in the project when he met John Fante, the author of the novel, while doing research for Chinatown (1974). more
Goofs:
Revealing mistakes: 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. more
Quotes:
Arturo Bandini: Take a look in the mirror.
Camilla: I don't want to look in the mirror.
Arturo Bandini: I don't blame you.
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Movie Connections:
Features Dames (1934) more
Soundtrack:
Blue Drag more

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17 out of 28 people found the following comment useful.
Wandering dust, 27 March 2006
4/10
Author: ErikOD from United States

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.

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