Ask the Dust (2006)
Directed by Robert Towne
Mexican beauty Camilla hopes to rise above her station by marrying a wealthy American. That is complicated by meeting Arturo Bandini, a first-generation Italian hoping to land a writing career and a blue-eyed blonde on his arm.
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Towne’s Oscar-nominated screenwriting successes ("The Last Detail," "Shampoo" and "Greystroke: The Legend of Tarzan") and his Oscar win for "Chinatown" have led to a healthy career writing Hollywood blockbusters like the "Mission Impossible" movies.
Fante's spirit is the sloshed, romantic vagabond's, pre-Kerouac in its ruefulness and, to the writer of The Last Detail and Shampoo now mainly punching up Tom Cruise vehicles, an irresistible vessel for his own unfashionably moony themes.