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A South African spinster murders her father after he rapes the wife of the black foreman for his plantation.
Dust
1985 Directed by Marion Hänsel
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Im Herzen des Landes, Kurz, 더스트, Пыль
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Theatrical
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Canada
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France
31 Oct 1986
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Canada
11 Sep 1985
- Theatrical
France
11 Sep 1985
- Theatrical
USA
31 Oct 1986
- Theatrical
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RIP Jane Birkin 🖤
Away from her Franglo chic, Birkin possessed an almost bird-like frailty that proved adept at portraying neuroses and hysteria. This quality was brought significantly to the fore in Marion Hänsel's 1985 film Dust, an adaptation of the South African author J.M. Coetzee's experimental novel In The Heart of the Country, first published almost a decade earlier in 1977. It's a performance that saw Birkin decreed the best actress of the year at the 1985 Venice Film Festival but, if you ever want to consider how fucked up awards ceremonies are, consider that Birkin won no prize for this, because the jury decides that the award for best actress had to go to someone involved in an…
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Heavily surrealistic work examining the mental breakdown of a woman struggling between morality,fear and love.The dry,dead-like atmosphere and the color tones adds a lot to the emotional and thematic nature of the film rising up a sort of tension and unsettlement throughout.Still i am not sure whether I perfectly grasped everything it intended to portray nevertheless it was a visual wonder of excellent filmmaking that deserves viewers’ to be sticked through each second till the end.Performances are steady enough.
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