Ember's analysis
- Pacing
- Brisk
- Intensity
- Strong
- Complexity
- Dense
- Violence
- Graphic
- stylized
- feverish
- violent
- arthouse film night
- international cinema screening
What critics said
Critics broadly recognized the film's visual ambition and scope but found its ornate dialogue, genre instability, and graphic violence undermined its historical and political ambitions.
What sets it apart
May contain story progression spoilers
The contemporary New York robbery story intersects with the brothers' Wild West tale and the Macedonian revolutionary narrative across three centuries.
The film's western idiom unfolds in Macedonia and the Ottoman Empire while using American gunslingers and frontier figures.
The plot explicitly resembles a Cubist painting, and the film is described as stylized, dazzling, and fractured.
The film connects revolutionary brutality, national conflict, and the personal legacy handed down to descendants.
Films like Dust, and why
The Proposition
stylized western form, morally unstable violence, and revisionist historical atmosphere
Before the Rain
cross-cultural historical conflict, fractured storytelling, and political controversy
Heaven's Gate
ambitious period action, heightened visual style, and tragic revolutionary themes
The City of Lost Children
genre hybridization, nonlinear storytelling, and stylized criminal violence
Movie Details
- Director
- Milcho Manchevski
- Release Date
- 2001-08-29
- Runtime
- 127 min
- Rating
- 5.5 / 10 (34)
Cast
- Joseph Fiennes
- David Wenham
- Adrian Lester
- Rosemary Murphy
- Nikolina Kujača
- Vlado Jovanovski
- Vera Farmiga
- Matt Ross
- Meg Gibson
- Salaetin Bilal
Where to watch in United States
- Streaming
- Amazon Prime Video, Lionsgate+ Amazon Channel, Amazon Prime Video with Ads, Starz Apple TV channel
- Rent
- Amazon Video, Apple TV Store, Google Play Movies, YouTube, Fandango At Home
- Buy
- Amazon Video, Apple TV Store, Google Play Movies, YouTube, Fandango At Home
Streaming options come from TMDB and change over time.
Common questions
- What is Dust about?
- A fractured, visually audacious Euro-Western links a New York crime encounter to violent legends of the Wild West and revolutionary Macedonia.
- What is Dust like to watch?
- Ember's analysis rates the pacing of Dust as brisk, its intensity as strong and its storytelling as dense.
- Is Dust violent?
- Yes. Ember rates the violence in Dust as graphic.
- What did critics think of Dust?
- Critics broadly recognized the film's visual ambition and scope but found its ornate dialogue, genre instability, and graphic violence undermined its historical and political ambitions.
- Which films are like Dust?
- Films with a similar feel include The Proposition, Before the Rain, Heaven's Gate, and The City of Lost Children.
- How long is Dust?
- Dust runs 127 minutes.
- Where can I watch Dust?
- In United States, Dust streams on Amazon Prime Video, Lionsgate+ Amazon Channel, Amazon Prime Video with Ads, Starz Apple TV channel.
