437 Ratings

Dust in the Wind

Lian lian feng chen

Taiwan, 1986

Drama, Romance

Synopsis

A-yuan and A-yun are both from the small mining town of Jio-fen. In the city, A-yuan is an apprentice by day and goes to night school, and A-yun works as a helper at a tailors. Everyone thinks they are meant for each other, so do they. They fail to see time and fate are beyond their control.

Dust in the Wind Directed by Hou Hsiao-hsien

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Awards & Festivals

Berlin International Film Festival

1987

2010

Toronto International Film Festival

1987

International Film Festival Rotterdam

2015

Telluride Film Festival

1999

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Cast & Crew

Critics reviews

As a film of remembrance, a memoir of youth, Dust is also a story about adolescent love, family and separation, and the multiform gulf—spiritual, social, material—between town and country. For Hou Hsiao-Hsien, this was probably the film that cemented his place among the most important of living filmmakers.

Michael Blum

June 15, 2016

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Cine-File

Drawing no attention to either its vignette structure or its pronounced melancholy, it can appear trivial at a glance, but steadily reveals a de-emphasized profundity (what Jonathan Rosenbaum rightly called a “subterranean impact that gradually rises to the surface”). A film of great, submerged depth.

Ignatiy Vishnevetsky

December 03, 2010

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What are people saying?

Ghostman's rating of the film Dust in the Wind
Ghostman

Dust in the Wind by Hou Hsiao-Hsien, with its gradual depiction of heartbreak & its deep melancholy, strikingly evokes how one's plans & aims can be irreparably lost by fate. It's rare to find a film where one can feel the characters trying to save the present moment & impossibly attempt to hold dear what will inevitably fall through the cracks of time. A film any filmmaker would be proud to call their own.
January 06, 2018 08:03
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Jason's rating of the film Dust in the Wind
Jason

Love. As ephemeral as the light. Dust in the wind, etc. What a scorcher. This thing is a muted sorcery. A cast spell. I needed to watch a man emerge from the narcotizing thrush of love into the hard light like a newborn screaming from the womb. And I needed it tuned just right. I needed to right timbre. Quite a leap forward. Hou is a God-like person. One of the real ones.
September 23, 2015 20:06
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InsertOzuReferencehere's rating of the film Dust in the Wind
InsertOzuReferencehere

Is "Dust In the Wind" Hou Hsiao Hsiens best work? I'm sure many would not think so, but on a personal level no other film of his has had such an impact on me. A heartbreakingly subtle film, with (in my opinion) one of the most beautiful final scenes of all time.
December 18, 2009 00:47
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rado's rating of the film Dust in the Wind
rado

Deceptive simplicity, tremendous direction and fabulous images, getting down to the essence of life in Taiwan.
June 07, 2017 21:10
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sharunasbresson's rating of the film Dust in the Wind
sharunasbresson

In every Hou film i can find a moment when one characters is looking at another, not looking back to him/her; and everytime it's a deeply touching cinematic moment.
December 31, 2018 01:20
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waywardwaters's rating of the film Dust in the Wind
waywardwaters

Tunnels are entered and exited, bridges are crossed and epochs passed in existential vicissitudes heeding not to take a single present moment for granted. 'Dust in the Wind' humbles the human experience in his futile resistance against fate, leading to a poignant final snapshot of a time and place dislocated in the past but rediscovered again as an unearthed postcard in the grandiosity of the cosmos.
August 12, 2015 15:55
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Mazintas's rating of the film Dust in the Wind
Mazintas

Unraveling through patiently-observed vignettes—largely comprised of quotidian, day-to-day moments—like a somber stroll along a beach, or a casual game of pool—that emphasize the ebb and flow of life, 'Dust in the Wind' favors a naturalism—life depicted unsentimentally, without judgement or didacticism, in snapshots—that recalls the verisimilitude of Sohrab Shahid-Saless's work, specifically 'A Simple Event.'
December 01, 2018 21:27
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CarlosEsquives's rating of the film Dust in the Wind
CarlosEsquives

Hsiao-Hsien crea historias sobre relaciones familiares en base al tiempo. Está esa constante relación entre abuelo y nieto, el primero aferrado a sus tradiciones, el segundo marcado por una suerte de desapego a su realidad. El protagonista de "Dust in the wind", similar a otras películas de su director, está cegado por el conformismo, algo que al final de su historia repercutirá en su historia de amor.
October 01, 2015 04:30
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Hou Hsiao-hsien Director

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Wu Nien-Jen Screenplay

Lee Ping-Bin Cinematography

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