Ask the Dust

Ask the Dust

  • Director: Robert Towne
  • Writer: Robert Towne,John Fante
  • Countries of origin: United States, Germany
  • Language: English, Spanish
  • Release date: April 13, 2006
  • Sound mix: Dolby Digital, DTS
  • Aspect ratio: 1.85 : 1
  • Also known as: Pregúntale al viento
  • "Ask the Dust" is a romance film produced by Paramount Pictures, directed by Robert Downey Sr and starring Colin Farrell and Salma Hayek . It premiered at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival on February 2, 2006   .
    The film tells the love story between the Italian young male writer Bantini and the Mexican woman Camilla who was also in the United States in the United States during the economic depression   .

    Details

    • Release date April 13, 2006
    • Filming locations Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
    • Production companies Paramount Pictures, Cruise/Wagner Productions, Ascendant Pictures

    Box office

    Gross US & Canada

    $743,847

    Opening weekend US & Canada

    $68,779

    Gross worldwide

    $2,460,057

    Movie reviews

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    • By Major 2022-11-12 16:46:12

      Unknown love, clear heart

      I still don't understand how the two people fell in love. The first time they met, they confronted each other in the tavern and slandered each other. One is an illegal immigrant from Mexico, and the other is a male from Italy. Bantini admits that he doesn't understand women, even fear and resistance. Although he is a writer, he has no decent work published. He lives in a hotel that costs 40 cents a day and often defaults on rent. This is not difficult to understand. In the age when tuberculosis...

    • By Ulices 2022-05-06 06:01:10

      Your first name, my last name

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          is also called coffee? Is it true that Mexicans don’t drink coffee? Don't dangle around in slippers, you are so rude. Dare not to put me in the eyes. I am a lover, Arturo Bandini.
          My last name is neither Johnson nor Williams, my last name is Bandini. Yes, I am an Italian bastard. I am not the only man by your side, just as I am not the only writer in this city. Yes, what should I call you, dear Ms. White?
          Why does every meeting end in a quarrel? Why do I become...

    • By Anya 2022-05-06 06:01:10

      A love in the world, a story written by a writer

      After watching it, I realized that the actor in it was named Colin Farrell. I remembered another movie he starred in, "The Killer Has No Holiday", and suddenly I felt that Arturo was a little bit short when I watched the movie. What, yes, Colin Farrell is Irish, but he plays an Italian. I always feel that he lacks the temperament of an Italian, such as Al Pacino's calm and explosive power; another point, Colin Farrell is still a bit rude, why choose his temperament to play a What about the...

    • By Graham 2022-05-06 06:01:10

      Foot fetish

      This score may be too low. The director and screenwriter Robert Towne is the editor and the best is the director. "Chinatown" in 1974 once helped him win the Oscar for Best Screenplay. On the contrary, Polanski was very disappointed and nominated so many. , And only the screenwriter won the prize.

      Robert Towne is an old man born in LA in 34 years. He has a strong literary and artistic accent. The subject matter of this film is the most suitable. He has lived in LA all his life, and...

    • By Antonetta 2022-05-06 06:01:10

      The little people's mutual love

      An Italian literary and artistic youth, an illiterate Mexican beauty, came to the United States in the Great Depression. Americans discriminated against Italians, and Italians felt that they were a bit taller than Mexicans, and their situation was even more difficult.
         Italians The young man made a living by making up stories, only a copper plate was left. He had to use it well, but he was humiliated by the Mexican girl who wanted to marry an American. This is a young man who looks so...

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    • By Halle 2023-09-17 22:10:06

      I like this kind of movie full of this old time...

    • By Arne 2023-09-07 08:16:53

      An Italian literary youth, an illiterate Mexican beauty, came to America in the Great...

    • By Grayson 2023-09-05 18:45:32

      ≪The killer has no vacation≫ The male protagonist looks so tangled, those...

    • By Aurelio 2023-09-05 00:38:27

      The lives of two women make a book. The lines of the drama, the nude scenes of the hero and the girl, and the emotional tangle scenes did not impress the audience. It is estimated that the complex emotions of the original novel cannot be directly transmitted to the audience through film and television. It is difficult to shoot and...

    • By Alden 2023-08-30 10:19:49

      2012-10-11 It is not a sophisticated setting, and even the filming of such a movie is at a loss for people to comment on.

    Movie plot

    Just as bright sunshine will flash with gorgeous and flashy colors, surrounded by rows of palm trees, bustling neighborhoods, and Hollywood, the movie kingdom, the multi-racial Los Angeles also reveals a bit of sex and the city in the eyes of the world. People from all over the world who are obsessed with the taste of desire have come to this "City of Angels", looking for life in wandering, chasing dreams in sadness, in the 1930s. The...
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    Behind the scenes gags

    When Robert Downey Sr originally invited Salma Hayek to star in the film, she refused because she didn't want to play a Mexican. She didn't agree until the film was filmed again 8 years later.
    Robert Downey Sr had already completed the script for the film in the 1990s, but due to funding problems it has been unable to start filming, and Johnny Depp had planned to star in it.
    Many scenes in the film are completed through special effects...
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    Evaluation action

    "Ask the Dust" is a sour and sweet movie. I thought it was just a romantic romance about the wrongs and wrongs of the family, but the following story made people lost in confusion. , Because both the hero and heroine understand in their hearts that the other party is not a real American, nor the object of their dreams, therefore, in their vigorous love, there is more hesitation and suspiciousness. The stories of writers and women are...
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    Movie quotes

    • Camilla: You call me beautiful at home, then you are ashamed to be seen with me in public. You are ashamed of beauty you recognize that no one else does. You are ashamed to love me!

    • Arturo Bandini: What does happiness mean to you Camilla?

      Camilla: That you can fall in love with whoever you want to, and not feel ashamed of it.

    • Vera Rivkin: [Vera is half-asleep in her bed; as Arturo is leaving, he reaches down and takes her hand] You're very kind.