Cert: 18
Released: 3 May
Cast: Joseph Fiennes, David Wenham, Adrian Lester, Anne Bochet, Rosemary Murphy.

Dust may well turn out to be one of the most bonkers films of the year. It's simply mad and one wonders how director Milcho Manchevski ever got it made.

With a storyline that flits back and forth between the beginning of the 20th and 21st centuries, the Balkans and New York, you really need to pay zttention or you could miss the point of it all.

In the present, a young, would-be robber (Lester) is held hostage by the old woman he's trying to rob (Murphy.) As she trains a pistol on him, she recounts the story of two brothers in the American wild west, Elijah and Luke (Fiennes and Wenham.) She tells how the pair fell for the same woman (Brochet), then travelled east to the collapsing Ottoman empire, where Luke worked as a mercenary and Elijah sought 'his' woman.

How the brothers story connects with the old woman only becomes clear at the very end of the film, but by then the parallels between the past and the present and the East and the West have become so confusing you may well exit the cinema none the wiser.

Imaginative stuff, but it doesn't make for a film that really holds together.