ask the dust

Colin Farrell plays Arturo Bandini, a down-on-his-luck writer who comes to 1930s Los Angeles to become a novelist and meet a blonde beauty. As his writing flourishes, however, he meets and becomes obsessed with a Mexican barmaid (Salma Hayek). Robert Towne (Chinatown, Shampoo) directed from his own screenplay of the famed John Fante novel. "Towne . . . has turned Fante's glorious howl into a requiem for a city and those who escape its gilded clutches." ~ New York Times.