Ask the Dust (2006)

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Ask the Dust
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Studio: Paramount Vantage
Rating: R
Release Date: Mar 10, 2006
Running Time: 117 mins.
Country Of Origin: United States
director: Robert Towne
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Set under the brutally sunny skies of Depression-era Los Angeles, a tale of obsession that focuses on a city both exotic and vulgar, glamorous and raunchy--a place of heat and dust. Full of imports--palm trees from Egypt and people from everywhere in search of health and wealth, fame and fortune--L. A. is the city of first and last resort, where all dreams are supposed to come true. So it is for Arturo Bandini, the ambitious son of Italian immigrants who dreams of becoming a famous novelist and marrying a beautiful blonde, and Camilla Lopez, a Mexican who longs to marry a WASP and shed her last name. In a time when Anglo-Chicano relations hang by tattered threads, Bandini and Camilla collide with one another, fighting the city and themselves to make their dreams come true.
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With its noir-ish literary roots, a Depression-Era L.A. setting and screenwriter Robert Towne's Chinatown legacy, Ask the Dust practically begs comparison to that '70s cinema masterpiece. Unfortunately, the new film--which Towne also directed--gets left eating the earlier work's dust.

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Towne's film is a noble but ultimately flawed attempt to adapt author John Fante's highly regarded 1930s novel (the screenwriter discovered it and befriended the author while researching Chinatown and spent… Continued

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