Warm, affectionate and oddly absorbing.
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07/10/09
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35 Shots of Rum (2009)
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Reviews Counted:37
Fresh:35
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
The most adult film of the year.
09/15/09
Top CriticClaire Denis returns with a relatively simpler, more narrative-based feature, though without sacrificing any of her unique flow.
09/18/09
Ingrid Caven (ex-Fassbinder diva) turns kitchen-sink realism to kitsch and surrealism Europudding-style. Credits reveal that the film had German co-funding. Sometimes money talks and the language is Gobbledegook.
07/10/09
This outstanding new film from Claire Denis demonstrates her fluency and mastery in the kind of movie-language that is rich, quietly complex and subtle - and very un-Hollywood.
07/10/09
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
...about the bonds that keep us tied to people, places and things...Denis has a mesmerizing directorial style
07/04/09
Denis uses her typically moody, vague style to explore multicultural France with dark humour and warm emotion.
07/10/09
At times it's so slow-moving, it's more like 35 Spoonfuls of Treacle. But writer-director Claire Denis has a knack for picking out special moments of closeness.
07/10/09
The key events in this low-key film occur off-screen, but Denis and regular cinematographer Agnès Godard have the priceless ability to infuse the everyday with a magical dimension.
07/10/09
This is supremely confident film-making, determinedly un-formulaic and populated with believable, three-dimensional people.
07/10/09
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
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
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
Denis magically evokes a liberal meditation on family, harmony, loyalty and belonging and their corollaries – loss, transgression, loneliness and separation – and achieves a sweet unity.
07/10/09
In 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
The magic of Claire Denis’s exquisite 35 Shots of Rum is that although so much is left unsaid, it’s one of the most emotionally eloquent films you’ll see this year.
07/10/09
Understated, beautifully acted, and with an exacting soundtrack, 35 Shots of Rum goes down easily but packs a subtle kick.
10/29/09
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
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