Drama

Ask the Dust

DramaRomance

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

Year

2006

Duration

1h 57m

IMDb

5.7

Trailer

Cast

Robert Towne

Director

Colin Farrell

Arturo Bandini

Salma Hayek

Camilla

Donald Sutherland

Hellfrick

Eileen Atkins

Mrs. Hargraves

Idina Menzel

Vera Rivkin

Justin Kirk

Sammy

Jeremy Crutchley

Solomon

RF

Ronald France

Columbia Sweeper

Dionysio Basco

Filipino Houseboy

DM

Donna Mosley

Red Headed Girl

PR

Paul Rylander

Harold the Bartender

NS

Natasha Staples

Denver Librarian

Wayne Harrison

Heilman

YY

Yasuhiro Yoshimura

Japanese Vegetable Man

S

Sid

Willie the Dog

D

Danny

Willie the Dog

Richard Schickel

H. L. Mencken

SH

Stephen Hughes

Worker

Robert Towne

Writer

JF

John Fante

Writer

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Comments

5 comments

Jayzam ManabatMay 30, 2023

Mohammed soueidanMay 29, 2023

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Tolou Anne MireilleNov 16, 2022

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.