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Dust

5 star:		(9)
4 star:		(2)
3 star:		(0)
2 star:		(0)
1 star:		(4)

 

 

This movie depicts the situation of gold-hungry individuals, whether they be westerners, New York thugs or Armed bands in Macedonia through the Ottoman times. Along the cruelty of those in power such as the police officers in New York or the Turkish army in Macedonia, the director shows great love and friendship stories in a parallel manner and in different times. Elijah's love with the French prostitute, Neda's with the teacher and Edge's friendship with the old lady Angela as well as Luke's with Neda and the people of her village. Like the other movie that Milco directed (Before the Rain), the story is hard to follow at first, but you will love it the more you watch it, guaranteed.

Great story of mixing The West and The East , in the manner of the faboulos macedonian director Milco Mancevski.Eventhough he has been educated in the USA, the euro scent is just unbeatable.The time is beggining of the 20th century, protagonits are basicly one 'new world' gunner, and a tough local rebel ... both with no common needs or intentions ...seemingly.On one hand this movie so historical, but at the other, more important one , is so modern.Watch this movie once, and it will hunt you to watch it twice ...or at leste it will force you thinking of it:)

This is not a true western.you may have known that,I didnt.From the trailer there is no mention to the true nature of the story.The box looks like a western,the tag line is "live by the gun, die by the gun" even the description on the back makes it sound like a possibly good western that fell to direct to video hell.It says nothing about an old dying woman in a modern day city dealing with a lowlife thug for gold coins.Even if I knew how this junk really was IT still wouldnt be any good.0 stars,just a tease. YOU WERE WARNED.

This movie was absolutely wonderful. I was a bit taken aback at first because I thought it was a western but it opens in modern day NY with Edge one of our protaganists robbing an old lady's home. Once over my shock I settled down and watched one of the best movies I have ever seen. It was the most original, intelligent movies. An amazing, masterful piece of art. This is not however some arthouse drivel but an exciting and moving film that will appeal to anyone who has a love of cinema and a good story. I highly recommend it!

It's like this...I originally bought this movie because I had seen David Wenham in LotR, thought he was very nice looking, and got this film hoping for further opportunities to stare into his limpid blue eyes and gaze at his pout. What actually happened was that I was sucked into this movie on its own merits, and ended up very impressed with it. Some reviews say that it is difficult to follow - in my own estimation I reckon that the first time you watch this you take in most of the functional bits of information (and maybe marvel at the nice shots), but you will feel confused/cheated by the numerous un-subtitled speech that is included in the dialogue. My suggestion, watch the movie again with the DVD subtitles turned on. Suddenly, all the foreign language dialogue is revealed to you and you will a: see a whole different layer to the film that the director clearly intended only to reveal to people who were curious enough to translate all the languages being spoken, b: suddenly understand a couple of things you might not have done and c: appreciate your first viewing and the general confusion of the 'hero' in the midst of all this dialogue that he didn't understand.

That doesn't mean you should watch it the first time around with subtitles. Please don't. I suspect that will spoil everything.

Summary: Very clever. Much respect to the director. A good film to watch if you like films that challenge you a bit.

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You will likely either love it or hate it...I loved it.

If you found this film difficult to follow, then maybe you should stick to your "no-brainer" mainstream movies. DUST is an excellent film, including the writing, acting, directing and definitely the photographing. I had no problem with the switching between the N. Y. and Macedonia stories. It pretty much summed up the greed and violence in present-day N. Y. to the same thing that happened all those years ago in Macedonia. In other words--nothing has changed. And America is not anymore civilized than Macedonia. A perceptive film for people with intelligence.

My advice to anybody considering this movie... watch paint drying for about 10 hours before you see this movie. Then it might seem quite good.

I have never seen a battle in a movie presented so real. People didn't just get shot and die, but they screamed in agony and and shook on the dusty land. Their taut faces reflected the fear of death. Watching those scenes was simply perplexing, however, it reminded me that it has actually happened and still happening somewhere in the world.
Manchevski doesn't deviate from his intention-to ridicule human's greed and lust for something material. Macedonian Orthodox priest on the same table with Turk soldiers, foreigners scrambling the destiny of the people, an old woman changing the story as she pleases...it all has meaning and reason.
This movie deserves more then five stars for the very fact that it is a masterpiece looking from every aspect of it.

This movie just sucked. Plain and simple. The story line was too jumpy and was way too hard to follow. I would not recommend this movie to anyone, in fact, if I was asked about it I would give the person the horrible facts about it's lack of plot.