To Dust

To Dust (2019)

Shmuel, a Hasidic cantor in Upstate New York and distraught at the untimely death of his wife, struggles to find religious solace, while secretly obsessing over how her body will decay. As a clandestine partnership develops with Albert, a local community college biology professor, the two embark on a darkly comic and increasingly literal undertaking into the underworld.

Date of release
2019-02-08
TMDB
5.4 / 10 (34)
Runtime
1h 45m
Genres
Drama, Comedy
Director
Shawn Snyder

Casting

Interesting facts

To Dust is a 2018 American comedy-drama film directed by Shawn Snyder, who co-wrote the screenplay with Jason Begue. It stars Géza Röhrig and Matthew Broderick, with Janet Sarno, Ben Hammer, Leo Heller, Sammy Voit, and Marceline Hugot in supporting roles. It follows a Hasidic cantor who, distraught by the untimely death of his wife, struggles to find religious solace.

Production

In 2015, the Tisch School of the Arts' $100,000 Sloan First Feature Film Prize was awarded to graduate student Shawn Snyder to produce his screenplay, To Dust. Snyder himself called the film a dark comedy, and talked about how his Reform Judaism background informed the story:

I have an ongoing journey with my Judaism that waxes and wanes. As a spiritual seeker myself, the movie is about how to find our own personal meanings and build our own rituals around it. That lifelong and continuing journey is largely what the film is about, our right to grieve, to find meaning in that loss, and to have conversations with the cultures we come from.

To Dust was produced by Ron Perlman and Josh Crook's Wing and a Prayer Pictures, Emily Mortimer and Alessandro Nivola's King Bee Productions, and Scott Floyd Lochmus. The original music was composed by Ariel Marx.

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