{"id":2284921,"date":"2026-02-17T00:45:30","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T00:45:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2284921"},"modified":"2026-02-17T00:45:30","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T00:45:30","slug":"dust-review-a-pair-of-shady-belgian-tech-edgelords-face-downfall-in-timely-but-plodding-portrait-of-venality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/dust-review-a-pair-of-shady-belgian-tech-edgelords-face-downfall-in-timely-but-plodding-portrait-of-venality\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Dust\u2019 Review: A Pair of Shady Belgian Tech Edgelords Face Downfall in Timely but Plodding Portrait of Venality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div role=\"presentation\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt35610474\/\">Berlinale<\/a> competitor <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt8977670\/\">Dust<\/a> unfolds a didactic parable, written by <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm3899543\/\">Angelo Tijssens<\/a> (Close), that revolves around two outwardly respectable but privately panicking Flemish business partners, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm2496040\/\">Geert<\/a> (<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm3581007\/\">Arieh Worthalter<\/a>) and Luc (<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0358418\/\">Jan Hammenecker<\/a>). 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.<\/p>\n<p>Set at the end of the 20th century, in the middle of what seemed like an unstoppable tech boom, Anke Blond\u00e9\u2019s feature follow-up to debut The Best of Dorien B. feels uncomfortably relevant today as the AI boom juices stock markets worldwide. <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt8977670\/\">Dust<\/a> 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 <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm3400758\/\">Stijn Verhoeven<\/a> and <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm7802090\/\">Ewa Mroczkowska<\/a>\u2019s&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2284922,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2284921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/\u2018Dust-Review-A-Pair-of-Shady-Belgian-Tech-Edgelords-Face.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2284921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2284921"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2284921\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2284923,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2284921\/revisions\/2284923"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2284922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2284921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2284921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2284921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}