Dust
written and directed by Milcho Manchevski
A reliable source (well, TV Guide) told me this would be a thought-provoking
time-travel Western. I can affirm that the phrase “thought-provoking” is inaccurate;
it’s harder to tell about the “time-travel” aspect. Even after surviving the
incomprehensible story—two brothers in the Old West (and Macedonia), a mean-spirited
woman in the present, and a black dude who may have had his thumbs broken by crooked
present-day police (or possibly he broke them at the Alamo)—I’m still uncertain
whether they time traveled.
— Michael Main
Edge: What’s you gonna do with this stupid story anyway?
Angela: You’ll see at the end.
Michael: Only if you survive that long.
Angela: You’ll see at the end.
Michael: Only if you survive that long.
Dust written and directed by Milcho Manchevski
(Venice Film Festival, 29 August 2001).