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Tuvalu (2001)

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Reviews Counted: 26

Fresh: 19

Rotten:7

Average Rating: 6.8/10

Consensus: Though a challenging watch, Tuvalu is visually striking and intriguingly quirky.

Rated: Not Rated

Runtime: 86 mins

Genre: Science-Fiction/Fantasy

Theatrical Release:May 4, 2001 Limited

Box Office: $135,270

Synopsis: A small town indoor pool and the limitless mind of one of the pool employees make the setting for this stunning comedic fantasy. The pool is where local residents go to escape the daily grind and... A small town indoor pool and the limitless mind of one of the pool employees make the setting for this stunning comedic fantasy. The pool is where local residents go to escape the daily grind and enter a fantastical dream world. Adrift in these daydreams, the Anton (Denis Lavant) finds Eva (Chulpan Hamatova), a beautiful woman who has the power to take this working class visionary into a strange, surreal world to live together in love. With roots in the circus and with an incredibly imaginary point of view, TUVALU will gain German director Veit Helmer many comparisons to filmmakers such as Federico Fellini, Chuck Jones, Buster Keaton, and Jean-Pierre Jeunet. This should not distract viewers from its highly original look and breathtaking scope. Filmed in both black and white and color with nearly no dialogue, Helmer's engaging love story is the director's feature debut after several successful shorts. The acrobatic and expressive Denis Lavant is a perfect daydreaming lead for this 2001 fable. [More]

Starring: Denis Lavant, E.J. Callahan

Starring: Denis Lavant, E.J. Callahan

Director: Veit Helmer

Director: Veit Helmer
Screenwriter: Veit Helmer, Michaela Beck
Studio: Indican Pictures

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04/05/03
Andrea Chase
Killer Movie Reviews

Tuvalu is like watching a Dali painting brought to life...and who wouldn't want to see that?

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01/07/03
Scott Weinberg
eFilmCritic.com

Ultimately a rewarding -- if weird -- experience. It's just too bad that it takes so long to get there.

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12/08/02
Merle Bertrand
Film Threat

Intriguing but ultimately irritating misfire.

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12/08/02
Phil Hall
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10/21/02
Jean Lowerison
San Diego Metropolitan

Fetishistic in its bemusement with gadgetry and painstaking in its slapstick-meets-high-emotion construction... Tuvalu is a decently engaging high farce, even if its influences are roundly on display.

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09/23/02
Brent Simon
Entertainment Today

A fascinating work that never quite coalesces, Tuvalu finally becomes oppressively repetitive.

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07/20/02
Patrick Z. McGavin
Chicago Tribune
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The film is relentlessly arty and much too stylistically bizarre for mainstream taste ... But it has its own peculiar charm.

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07/19/02
William Arnold
Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Tuvalu is astounding. It is also bizarre, challenging, and, at times, admirably overreaching.

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05/31/02
Janice Page
Boston Globe
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...give this wonderful, funny, clever little flick a try.

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05/21/02
Robin Clifford
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Emil Christov's stunningly clear black and white cinematography presents images from another time, like a neo-Guy Maddin flick.

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05/17/02
Laura Clifford
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They used to be called moving pictures, and the captivating Tuvalu reminds us why.

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03/14/02
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul)
St. Paul Pioneer Press

Recommended for its singular vision -- a concept executed with bravura style, intelligent curiosity, and playful wit.

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03/03/02
Marjorie Baumgarten
Austin Chronicle

Charming and a little tiresome.

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02/08/02
David Elliott
San Diego Union-Tribune

This one-of-a kind charmer casts an immediate and delightful spell.

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02/01/02
Kevin Thomas
Los Angeles Times
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Helmer's film is easy to enjoy as a mere romp, though it also can be read as a very thinly veiled allegory about post-Soviet Europe.

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01/31/02
Andy Klein
New Times

A gorgeous cough syrup hallucination -– the kind of beautiful, feverish dream to which you succumb while eardrum-piercingly high on over-the-counter cold medicine.

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01/29/02
Rachel Sanders
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