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Ask the Dust is a american film of genre Drama directed by Robert Towne released in USA on 2 february 2006 with Colin Farrell
Ask the Dust (2006)
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Add to a movie listReleased in USA 2 february 2006
Length 1h57
Directed by Robert Towne
OriginUSA
Themes Films about writers
Rating56%
Ask the Dust is a 2006 American film based on the book Ask the Dust by John Fante. The film was written and directed by Robert Towne and remains, as of 2015, his last feature film. Tom Cruise (with Paula Wagner and Cruise/Wagner Productions) served as one of the film's producers. The film was released on a limited basis on March 17, 2006 and was entered into the 28th Moscow International Film Festival. It was filmed almost entirely in South Africa with the use of stages to portray Los Angeles.
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The story is set during the Great Depression, specifically around the time of the 1933 Long Beach earthquake. Camilla (Salma Hayek) is a fiery, beautiful Mexican café waitress who aspires one day to be above her current standing in society, to make something of herself, to give her and her future children a place and chance in the world. Farrell's character is portrayed as a struggling writer who comes to Los Angeles's Bunker Hill area to start his writing career. Though he falls in love with Camilla, he does not marry her. Later, Camilla is infected by tuberculosis and leaves Arturo without informing him. When Arturo finds her, she is about to die and he promises to marry her, but Camilla dies and Arturo writes a novel dedicated to Camilla. Arturo writes a dedication in one of his books to her and throws it into the sand.Actors
Colin Farrell
(Arturo Bandini)
Salma Hayek
(Camilla Lopez)
Donald Sutherland
(Hellfrick)
Idina Menzel
(Vera Rivkin)
Eileen Atkins
(Mrs. Hargraves)
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