Precisely, rigorously, technically, 35 Shots of Rum is a masterpiece.
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09/16/09
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35 Shots of Rum (2009)
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Reviews Counted:39
Fresh:37
Rotten:2
Average Rating:7.8/10
Consensus: This slow-moving French family drama is rich, complex, subtle and emotionally eloquent.
Rated: Not Rated
Genre: Dramas
Theatrical Release:Sep 16, 2009 Limited
Synopsis: “The warmth radiating from 35 Shots of Rum, smoother than the finest liquor, reminds viewers how rarely movies capture the easygoing love embodied in a functional family, with all its support and... [More]
Starring: Alex Descas, Mati Diop, Nicole Dogue, Gregoire Colin
Director: Claire Denis
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Reviews for 35 Shots of Rum
A couple of shots of rum would have been a good idea before watching this slow-burning French drama - it would have livened things up.
07/10/09
Don't miss this one.
12/04/09
35 Shots of Rum is a quiet and lovely new film by the French director Claire Denis.
09/16/09
Top CriticIn spare, poetic fashion, Denis shows each character drifting in different directions.
07/10/09
This film is the work of a cinematic master. Writer/director Claire Denis handles the ebb and flow of everyday human existence with such tenderness and truth that her film feels like a great warm hug.
07/10/09
Denis declines to make concessions, she's willing to show, refuses to tell.
06/28/09
Several sequences have little to no dialogue but give us a rich, ambivalent view of the characters and their feelings ... . It's a directorial risk that pays off with an indelible experience.
10/08/09
Claire Denis's film-making is so elliptical you sometimes feel at a loss to know what's going on, but the mood – cool, meditative, unhurried – beckons you along insistently.
07/10/09
Perhaps as a result of channeling Ozu, Denis's incipient humanism comes through more directly than in her existentially forbidding The Intruder or even her acclaimed, baroque Herman Melville remix Beau Travail.
09/16/09
This deep devotion to physicality and wordless expression has been part of Denis' repertoire for some time but it has never been so soulful and seductive.
09/15/09
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.
09/16/09
35 Shots of Rum draws its power from silences, glances, hugs and smiles - all of which speak more eloquently than any dialogue. It's a profound, discreet, hugely touching work that resonates in the memory.
07/10/09
Superbly played and realised, this stays with you.
07/10/09
The smallest detail is given due weight, and we feel we begin to know these people. The cast seldom puts a foot wrong. Denis has never made a more resonant film.
07/10/09
Establishes an immediate and intense fascination for its characters and their lives that it never for a second loses.
07/10/09
Claire Denis returns with a relatively simpler, more narrative-based feature, though without sacrificing any of her unique flow.
09/18/09
Claire Denis has assembled a simple yet achingly touching little drama. On the surface it looks as if hardly anything's happening, but submit to the gently fluid style and it turns out everything is going on.
07/10/09
All families do face life changes: children grow up, parents grow old, desire waxes and wanes. I've rarely seen a film which captures the joy and sadness so well.
08/07/09
Bittersweet.
11/18/09
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