Acclaimed Macedonian director Milcho Manchevski ("Before the Rain") fashioned this offbeat western saga set in both America and Europe. A woman catches a thief burglarizing her Manhattan apartment, then convinces him to listen to her story about David Wenham and Joseph Fiennes, brothers in love with prostitute Anne Brochet in the early 1900s. When Brochet weds Fiennes, Wenham heads to the Balkans, where he becomes a mercenary and falls in love with a pregnant woman. With Adrian Lester, Rosemary Murphy. 123 min. Widescreen (Enhanced); Soundtrack: English Dolby Digital 5.1; Subtitles: English, Spanish; audio commentary; deleted scenes; art gallery.

DVD Details: Actors: Joseph Fiennes, David Wenham, Adrian Lester, Anne Brochet, Nikolina Kujaca

Directors: Milcho Manchevski

Format: Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC. Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only)

Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1; Number of discs: 1; Studio: Lions Gate

DVD Release Date: November 11, 2003; Run Time: 127 minutes

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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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10 of 11 found the following review helpful:

Dynamic MixtureDec 11, 2003
By GoodBytes
Dust is a dynamic mixture of love & hate, attack & defense, power & helplessness, reality & fantasy, lust & rejection, expectations & cruel reality, belief & skepticism, boiled all together in a furnace up in the Macedonian highlands, powered by unimaginable greed for gold and power. It is an adventure which will take you back in time, when people could loose everything in a split second, and then back in present, just enough to help you re-evaluate what you have just seen with today's sense and criteria... Real artistic refreshment from the all-present commercial & worthless Hollywood plastic. Five thumbs up for this excellent movie from Milcho Manchevski!

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Well Made Film. Very ArtisticNov 23, 2003

This is not a film that will appeal to everyone. It is long and complicated with several plots going on at once centered around a central story. Nice imagery, beautiful settings and an interesting story all around. The dialogue is very well done, geniune, witty, and well thought out. The two plots (one which takes place in our present and one that takes place in the 1900's)relate well to each other. The main charaters in both plots are well aligned as the grow togther over the course of the movie. This is a complicated feat for any movie to pull off but the director did it flawlessly, even merging the two characters into the same plot at the end. Brilliant work of art and film making.

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Dust is a Must for any David Wenham fan!Jan 15, 2004
By D. Travetti-Perkins "Deana"
How to begin.... I purchased this movie looking to find other films starring David Wenham (besides LOTR) and was truly blown away. The style of the film was quite unexpected and the way the story unfolds was completely original. (I don't want to give antyhing away!) This movie is difficult to categorize - it's not your typical western, not your typical family drama, not a typical anything. The acting is superb, especially David Wenham. While there isn't a huge amount of dialogue in his scenes, he is able to convey such a range of emotions with is face and body language that he doesn't have to say anything. The relationships in the film are gritty and real and the violence, while significant, doesn't seem overdone - it's appropriate for the tone of the movie and the life the characters lead. The cinematography is breathtaking - Manchevski's story and directing are gritty and beautiful at once and David Wenham is raw, harsh, ruthless and, of course, stunning!

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