Rating: R
Genre:
Drama
Theatrical Release: 08/22/2003(USA
Release Date: 11/11/2003
SubTitles: English/Espanol
Dubbed: English
Sound: 2
Run Time: 124 Minutes
Flags: Violence, Strong Sexual Content, Adult Language
Distributor/Studio: Lions Gate
Love and war divide two brothers in a
drama from award-winning director
Milcho Manchevski, his first since his acclaimed 1994 debut
Pred Dozhdot. After an elderly woman (
Rosemary Murphy) gets the better of a burglar (
Adrian Lester) who has broken into her apartment, she decides to tell him a story about her family to give him a perspective on an individual's legacy to their family.
Luke (
David Wenham) and
Elijah (
Joseph Fiennes) are brothers and cowboys in the American West near the turn of the century.
Luke and
Elijah are both in love with
Lilith (
Anne Brochet), a woman who works in an upscale brothel, and when
Elijah marries her, it puts a permanent rift in his relationship with his brother.
Luke leaves the country and travels to Macedonia, where he becomes involved with a group of resistance fighters who are trying to topple Turkish occupation of their land; a skilled gunman,
Luke soon becomes a valuable member of the Macedonian nationalist forces, and falls in love with
Neda (
Nikolina Kujac), a woman fighting alongside the loyalists. However,
Luke discovers he can't entirely leave his past behind when he discovers
Elijah has become a hired gun who has joined the Turkish forces.
Dust was the opening night attraction at the
2001 Venice Film Festival.
~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
