Twentynine Palms
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43 out of 100

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6.8 out of 10

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  • Starring: David Wissak, Yekaterina Golubeva
  • Summary: Twentynine Palms is a small, remote American town deep in the desert of central California. It provides the unique setting for this darkly comedic chronicle of the romantic and sexual life of a young couple in love. (Wellspring Media)

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5 out of 16
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 16
  3. Negative: 7 out of 16
  1. New York Post
    Reviewed by: V.A. Musetto
    100
    At turns sexy, ultra-violent and sweet, it will infiltrate your brain long after you've seen it.
  2. Christian Science Monitor
    Reviewed by: David Sterritt
    75
    Dumont's methods are radical, but there's a fascinating method to his seeming cinematic madness.
  3. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Stephen Holden
    60
    The sustained force of Mr. Dumont's vision of existence as a swirl of brute instincts may not be easy to absorb, but it marks him as a major filmmaker.
  4. Boston Globe
    Reviewed by: Ty Burr
    38
    A textbook example of how a director can strip away plot, motivation, character, and meaning and still leave arrant pretension standing tall.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4 out of 4
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 4
  3. Negative: 0 out of 4
  1. AntonC.
    9
    The only simile that suits all the attributes to this film is "as hell".
  2. ChadS.
    7
    The central question surrounding "29 Palms" for me is if the final violent act would've occured independently of the nod to "Deliverance". After all, why else would you be driving around the California desert? [***SPOILERS***] Maybe, just maybe, David was double-crossed by those men in the white truck. If you believe he was, the scene in which David boots Katerina out of the motel room, post-b.j., gains a noir-ish edge. Maybe her paranoia about that passing car is an unconscious premonition. Unlike Catherine Breillart's "Fat Girl", filmmaker Bruno Dumont might be planting clues under our noses.… Collapse

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