The movie's dual narrative will prove to be a challenge for most viewers. You best bring an uninterrupted attention span to this one or you'll lose focus very quickly. In fact, I thought the picture was mismatched with its title when it first started with an opening scene in modern day New York, before reverting to an Old West scenario and finally moving on to Macedonia and a revolt by a local tribal leader against the Ottoman Empire. The story is centered on two sets of principal characters, an old woman (Rosemary Murphy) in a city apartment being victimized by a street hood (Adrian Lester), and a pair of gunslinger brothers (David Wenham, Joseph Fiennes) who fall for the same woman, and how their falling out with each other eventually brings the story back home to the present. I'm not going to go into the intricate details of the story because so many other reviewers here have done so with their own takes on director Milcho Manchevskl's overly ambitious effort, except to comment on the fact that the story could not have happened in the way it was presented. All you have to consider is the old woman Angela's (Rosemary Murphy) refrigerator dispensing the profusion of gold coins, even though they were all scattered at the Turkish camp by Luke (David Wenham) when he came for the pregnant Neda (Nikolina Kujaca). The coins were quickly accumulated by the tribe's members, making it a moot point that they could all show up again in one place a hundred years later. I can buy the idea that the baby saved by Elijah (Fiennes) was Angela, but how she got all the gold coins stuffed into her fridge is another matter entirely.
Review of Dust
