Berlinale competitor Dust unfolds a didactic parable, written by Angelo Tijssens (Close), that revolves around two outwardly respectable but privately panicking Flemish business partners, Geert (Arieh Worthalter) and Luc (Jan Hammenecker). The two face tough choices when they learn the start-up they built shilling speech-to-text software is about to be exposed by the police as a scam built with capital conned out of friends, family and small-time investors.
Set at the end of the 20th century, in the middle of what seemed like an unstoppable tech boom, Anke Blondé’s feature follow-up to debut The Best of Dorien B. feels uncomfortably relevant today as the AI boom juices stock markets worldwide. Dust icily exposes how character can evaporate in the crucible of greed, but the plodding pace makes this ethical exercise feel attenuated and flat by the time the climax rolls around. At least Stijn Verhoeven and Ewa Mroczkowska’s…
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