Mexico’s Ivan Lowenberg on ‘No Quiero Ser Polvo,’ Seeing Omens in Thunderstorms, Casting His Mom
Jeffrey Sipe In director Ivan Lowenberg’s second feature, “I Don’t Want to Be Dust” (“No quiero ser polvo”), a middle-aged woman is struggling to feel relevant to an indifferent husband, a shlub of a son and, well, life, in general.She’s sharp enough to see through the fake mysticism of New Age-ish gurus and the airy platitudes of her yoga instructor, but she takes refuge in a cult that that is mostly interested in selling must-have’s from the gift shop and doomsday predictions that Bego eagerly and almost joyfully embraces.Having grown up in a bizarrely New Age-ish family that saw omens in thunderstorms, Lewenberg said, “I began to ask myself: What could be behind a person whose main motivation in being alive is a cataclysm of big