Movie

The Dust of Time

2008 · 128 min

A slow, sweeping meditation on memory and loss, moving through decades with melancholic grandeur and quiet emotional devastation.

Overview: To trace the fading past of his parents, a grizzled Greek-American filmmaker decides to shoot a movie. By recounting the painful efforts of his mother to reunite with his musician father, his film spans more than half of the 20th century.
How it feels: Melancholic, bleak, dark and earnest. Slow-burning and demanding.
About: Memory, grief, isolation, family
Content: Mild violence, sexual content and language. No gore.
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Tone: melancholicstrength 3 of 3
bleakstrength 2 of 3
darkstrength 2 of 3
earneststrength 2 of 3
Pacing: slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: memory
grief
isolation
family
betrayal
Places: big city
countryside
road trip
Era: period
Audience: adult
Form: nonlinear
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence mild
Sex mild