Twentynine Palms is another in a string of recent French movies in which the body is no longer sacred, a churning, jerking, oozing machine. But Dumont seems to be working toward human discovery.
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06/03/08
Twentynine Palms (2004)
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Reviews Counted: 36
Fresh: 16
Rotten:20
Average Rating: 4.9/10
Consensus: A muddled and inconsequential drama.
Theatrical Release:Apr 9, 2004 Limited
Synopsis: French philosopher-turned-filmmaker Bruno Dumont follows up his award-winning drama HUMANITE with the equally devastating TWENTYNINE PALMS. Dumont's self-professed "experimental horror film"... [More]
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11/04/07
A movie full of surfaces but with exasperatingly little to say
10/02/06
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02/09/06
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07/26/05
Fascinating in the abstract but wearisome in reality.
05/04/05
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12/19/04
The talented filmmaker laid an egg with this one.
11/16/04
It's cheap thrills in an arty package.
08/08/04
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08/01/04
Top CriticBoth the characters and the setting are a bit of a blank here, so it's no surprise the movie is, too.
07/20/04
A textbook example of how a director can strip away plot, motivation, character, and meaning and still leave arrant pretension standing tall.
07/16/04
Top CriticMuddled.
06/18/04
Top CriticFrench exercise in California crisis and empty existentialism manages to be pointless, dim and brutal all at once.
06/17/04
In Twentynine Palms, writer and director Bruno Dumont takes his cultural revenge on the United States, attacking countless American stereotypes and in the process reinforcing an equal number of cliches about arrogant French auteurs.
06/11/04
Top CriticLet's just say that Palms could shock the pants right off of you.
06/04/04
It's alternately monotonous, hot and dramatic, which makes for a peculiar, not entirely unsatisfying atmosphere of neo -- or is that post? -- noir.
05/28/04
Top Critic[Dumont] forces viewers to question not only what's on the screen, but ultimately, the very nature of reality.
05/20/04
Top Critic[Brown Bunny] sports the narrative complexity of War and Peace compared with Twentynine Palms.
04/27/04
Top CriticWhat Dumont expresses is too guttural and inchoate to even be called despair. It's not there yet, or else it's way past that.
04/20/04
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