35 Shots of Rum

Name: 35 Shots of Rum
Genre: Drama
Released: September 16, 2009
Duration: 100 min
Rating: 92

2009

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Universal acclaim based on 17 Critic Reviews

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Generally favorable reviews based on 59 Ratings

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Cinema Guild | Release Date: September 16, 2009 | Not Rated

Summary: A widowed conductor, looking forward to retirement, lives with his grown daughter in a Paris suburb. When a neighbor starts to show interest in his "little girl", the conductor tries to adjust.

Director: Claire Denis

Genre(s): Drama

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 100 min

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Deborah Young

Claire Denis, not always an easy director, is in top form here directing an almost all-black cast with grace and delicacy. For the happy few, this is French art house cinema at its unpretentious best. Read full review

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Kevin Thomas

For 20 years, Claire Denis has been among France's foremost filmmakers with her acute yet subtle observations of the ebbs and flows within relationships. Her perception and understanding seem to grow only richer over the years, and her newest film, 35 Shots of Rum, is surely one of her finest -- and thereby one of the best films of the year. Read full review

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David Fear

To fall in love with it, viewers only have to be receptive to a movie that examines the ties that bind with grace, wit and depth. Read full review

Cliff Doerksen

It's a beautiful picture but very quietly so, and definitely not for the ADHD set. Read full review

Jay Weissberg

Claire Denis’ latest may appear whisper-thin on the surface, yet it’s marvelously profound, illuminating the love between a father and daughter but also highlighting the difficulty of relinquishing what most people spend a lifetime putting into place. Read full review

Wesley Morris

I liked these characters, and suddenly not having them in my life anymore, simply because Denis has decided to start the closing credits, devastated me. Read full review

Amy Biancolli

Hushed minimalism is a rare and appealing quality in the cinema these days, but so little happens in 35 Shots of Rum that I'm hard-pressed to describe the plot. It doesn't exactly have one. Read full review

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andrex3

Mar 13, 2021

an adorable tale of the cycles of life. extremely sublime. the sound design is superb.
real peace of art.

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CharlesS.

Sep 17, 2009

Saw this at a festival...its a beautiful, simple film. True gem and very moving. That bar scene is one of the best scenes in cinema.

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NancySoir

Apr 10, 2011

Loved the camera pans on this film. Sound is incredibly power-full. Hard to follow the story, but keeps you on the edge of your seat with suspense. Unlikely traditional French Film, and story telling.

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PyrH

Oct 28, 2009

Lovely scenes of working class Paris, though the living spaces seem much too bourgeois 'intello' with books everywhere for the train workers depicted. The nearly all Black cast is excellent and worth watching whatever they say or do. But this film suffers from Claire Denis' Lovely scenes of working class Paris, though the living spaces seem much too bourgeois 'intello' with books everywhere for the train workers depicted. The nearly all Black cast is excellent and worth watching whatever they say or do. But this film suffers from Claire Denis' pretentious, mannered take on the emotional lives of its subjects: there is much too much silence--too much quiet--in their lives and the highly symbolic coincidences are unconvincing. Is it a white intellectual's overly reverent appreciation of Black Paris that's at fault? Or is it that Denis tells every story with a formality and 'respect' that leaves out the noise and stir of real life--and real feelings. Perhaps both. In any case, this is a classic of the succès de critique. The critics love it for its demure, understated silences.… Expand

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TomG

Nov 2, 2009

Overrated: a highly stylized and almost prim vision of Black Paris. The people, like the apartments, are unconvincingly grand and silent amidst their working class neighborhoods and jobs. The coincidences that lend pathos to the story are forced. Claire Denis overreaches here and Overrated: a highly stylized and almost prim vision of Black Paris. The people, like the apartments, are unconvincingly grand and silent amidst their working class neighborhoods and jobs. The coincidences that lend pathos to the story are forced. Claire Denis overreaches here and doesn't bring it off--though there's no denying that the critics have loved it.… Expand

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resatfuat

Jul 9, 2011

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CWein

Mar 13, 2010

This movie is on my worst ever list. I usually agree with Metacritic ratings but this one is way off. Nothing happens the whole movie. The characters are boring as is the script. I would not recommend this movie for my worst enemy.

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