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Review: Ask the Dust

“Most surprising is that we’d figure Towne’s fountain of experience would carve out the best from John Fante’s noir novel, it may have served as great source material but the film falters because the connection between the characters and this place in history is not strong enough making the great depression looking rosy when it should have been grim-colored”
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“Most surprising is that we’d figure Towne’s fountain of experience would carve out the best from John Fante’s noir novel, it may have served as great source material but the film falters because the connection between the characters and this place in history is not strong enough making the great depression looking rosy when it should have been grim-colored”

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Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).

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