Colin Farrell
Arturo Bandini
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Mar 24, 2006 · Based on John Fante's novel, the film follows Arturo Bandini (Colin Farrell), a struggling writer in 1930s Los Angeles, and his turbulent relationship with Camilla (Salma Hayek), a Mexican beauty. The film features Donald Sutherland, Richard Schickel, and Django Reinhardt's music.
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- Drama, Romance
- Robert Towne
- 2006-03-24
Ask the Dust is a 2006 romantic drama film based on the 1939 book Ask the Dust by John Fante. The film was written and directed by Robert Towne. Tom Cruise (with Paula Wagner and Cruise/Wagner Productions) served as one of the film's producers.
A film adaptation of John Fante's novel about a writer's life in Depression-era Los Angeles. Colin Farrell stars as Arturo Bandini, who falls in love with a waitress (Salma Hayek) and faces racism, poverty and his own doubts.
Mar 10, 2006 · Arturo Bandini (Colin Farrell) is a writer who moves from Colorado to Los Angeles with aspirations of completing a great novel. There he meets bold Mexican waitress Camilla (Salma Hayek). She wants...
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- Robert Towne
- R
- Colin Farrell
Summaries. Mexican beauty Camilla Lopez (Salma Hayek) hopes to rise above her station by marrying a wealthy American. That is complicated by meeting Arturo Bandini (Colin Farrell), a first-generation Italian hoping to land a writing career and a blue-eyed blonde on his arm.
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Aug 1, 2006 · 1h 57m. Set under the brutally sunny skies of Depression-era Los Angeles, a tale of obsession that focuses on a city both exotic and vulgar, glamorous and raunchy--a place of heat and dust.
