L.A. in the early 1930's: racism, poverty, and disease color the Bunker Hill neighborhood where Arturo Bandini, a lover of men and beasts alike, has arrived from Colorado to write the great Los Angeles novel. After six months and down to his last nickel, he orders a cup of coffee, served by Camilla Lopez, beautiful, self-possessed, and Mexican. Arturo gets advice, encouragement, and an occasional check from H.L. Mencken, so he keeps writing and he keeps seeing Camilla. But, he's mean to her for no apparent reason, so the relationship sputters. A housekeeper from back East suggests a way out o... f his jealously and fears. "Camilla Bandini": is it in the cards?
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Lovers of Los Angeles literature and especially the works of John Fante have long anticipated the arrival of the movie version of Ask the Dust. That it was entrusted to Robert Towne, of Chinatown fame and keeper of a tradition of Southern California writers, has been a source of comfort and high hopes.
Thirty years of gestation have produced a film of great beauty with unfulfilled promise ??? a disappointment, but with much to recommend and be glad about. It is a reverent treatment of the touchstone novel about tyro writer Arturo Bandini and his adventures in the City of Angels that perhaps clings too closely to the original while neglecting the intricacies ...
Dry as dust..
Based on a thirties novel,one of the great undiscovered? the fim looks really good - first rate cinematography perfectly capturing the time, place and mood. The film, however, could never be described as great. It lacks real substance and is very slow. Nothing happens, and after about an hour, I thought I might turn to dust myself. There have been plenty of good movies about struggling writers -Adaptation, for instance, with Nicholas Cage. But there is only so much energy and action one can generate around a guy sitting at a typewriter tearing out his hair in frustration and screwing up endless sheets of paper. It takes a lot of skill to bring this kind of thing off successfuly. I thought...
great
Good onscreen chemistry and cinematography. Great sex scene.
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