Synopsis
Two parallel tales of redemption, a century apart. In the New York storyline, Edge hunts for Angela's gold to pay back a debt, and gradually grows closer to her. In the Macedonian story, the brothers end up fighting for opposite sides of a revolution, with the religious Elijah taking up sides with the Ottoman sultan and gunslinger Luke joining "the Teacher" , a Macedonian rebel.
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Cast
- Joseph FiennesElijah
- David WenhamLuke
- Adrian LesterEdge
- Rosemary MurphyAngela
- Nikolina KujačaNeda
- Vlado JovanovskiTeacher
- Vera FarmigaAmy
- Matt RossStitch
- Meg GibsonBone
- Salaetin BilalMajor
Recommendations
- 60
TV Guide Magazine
The chaotic, brutal iconography of Italian Westerns is put to novel use in this time-traveling, self-referential, hugely ambitious story of American brothers. - 60
Variety
It's too arty to cut it as a violent action pic and too gore-spattered to appeal to the arthouse crowd. - 50
Christian Science Monitor
Its most impressive aspect is its visual style, patterned to some degree on Sergio Leone westerns. A picture this long and dense should work harder to be cogent and coherent, though. - 50
The New York Times
A potent, assured and ambitious piece of filmmaking brought down by weighted dialogue and, playing Americans, the British actors Adrian Lester and Joseph Fiennes and the Australian David Wenham. - 50
Village Voice
Manchevski has a rare visual intelligence, whether filming the face of a dying woman or Times Square's reflection in a windshield. But in reaching for a cubist style of storytelling, he sacrifices character and motivation. - 50
New York Daily News
Three movies in one: a spaghetti Western, an urban drama and a historical epic. All of them suffer from self-indulgent direction, a convoluted script and awkward acting. - 30
Los Angeles Times
Dust is a bust, a big bad movie of the scope, ambition and bravura that could be made only by a talented filmmaker run amok. - 30
L.A. Weekly
Whatever ghost-story intrigue the film musters gives way to a tedious cycle of fighting, screwing, shouting and storytelling stuck together by two hours worth of hard-boiled dialogue gone gummy.
