Dust (1985)

Directed by

Marion Hänsel

Genre

drama film

Country

France, Belgium

Runtime

1h 29m

Rating

4.5 of 10 from 10 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A woman lives on a remote farm with her father. She struggles with loneliness and a desire for connection.

isolatedbroodingquietgrimslow-pacedatmosphericintrospective

What happens

Dust is a 1985 film directed by Marion Hänsel based on the 1977 J. M. Coetzee novel In the Heart of the Country. The film was shot in Spain and is a French-Belgian production. The film was selected as the Belgian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 58th Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee. It won the Silver Lion prize, awarded to the best first or second major work by a director, at the 1985 Venice Film Festival. The jury recognised Jane Birkin's performance as amongst the best of the year, but decided not to award a best actress prize because all of the actresses they judged to have made the best performances were in films that won major awards. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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