Thursday, December 20, 2018

Dust (1985)


IMDb plot summary: A South African spinster murders her father after he rapes the wife of the black foreman for his plantation.
Directed by Marion Hänsel. Starring Jane Birkin, Trevor Howard, John Matshikiza, and Nadine Uwampa.

Oh, this is so fascinating. And so sad. The story of a woman who has so long lived under someone else's control that even when she gets freedom, she slowly becomes everything she hates about the father who controlled her. It's an extremely slow movie, but once I got into the rhythms of the character, I found myself spellbound.

4 stars.

How it entered my Flickchart:
Dust > Wonder Boys
Dust > Waitress
Dust < Into the Woods (2014)
Dust < Bruce Almighty
Dust > Hairspray Live!
Dust < Rocky
Dust < Deadpool
Dust > Brave
Dust > Robot and Frank
Dust < The African Queen

Final spot: #614 out of 2887.

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