2006 · romance · drama · music
Ask the Dust
Directed by Robert Towne1h 57m2006
Mexican beauty Camilla hopes to rise above her station by marrying a wealthy American. That is complicated by meeting Arturo Bandini, a first-generation Italian hoping to land a writing career and a blue-eyed blonde on his arm.
Our read: Ask the Dust (2006) reads as a sombre, measured, grounded romance · drama · music entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Sombre, measured, measured romance / drama, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold.
- sombre
- measured
- cold
- intimate
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