Ask the Dust - Region 1 DVD
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Surprisingly Wonderful
16 years, 4 months ago at Dec 20 0:01
I really enjoyed this movie a lot and hadn't really been expecting much, considering I'd never heard of it before my TiVo wishlist hit on it. Colin Farrell and Salma Hayek have some nice chemistry here and their performances are quite good. It's now one of my favorite Colin movies.
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Adapted from the acclaimed 1939 novel by John Fante, Ask the Dust represents a 30-year labor of love for Robert Towne, the Oscar®-winning screenwriter of Chinatown. It's easy to see why Towne was drawn to Fante's classic tale of ill-fated romance in Depression-era Los Angeles: It's a tenacious, hard-scrabble valentine to Towne's beloved city, to the lonely craft of writing, and to the elusive whims of love. Towne must have been inspired by the challenge of capturing the inner life and outer environs of Fante's literary hero, struggling writer Aturo Bandini (played by Colin Farrell), as he arrives in L.A. circa 1932, sells
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Manufacturer: Paramount
Release date: 1 July 2006
Number of discs: 1
EAN: 0097363441748 UPC: 097363441748
Release date: 1 July 2006
Number of discs: 1
EAN: 0097363441748 UPC: 097363441748
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shiftybunny rated this 5/10 7 years, 10 months ago