Let's just say that Palms could shock the pants right off of you.
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06/04/04
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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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Reviews for Twentynine Palms
A real, and uncompromising, achievement.
01/18/04
[Dumont] forces viewers to question not only what's on the screen, but ultimately, the very nature of reality.
05/20/04
Top CriticNo review available.
11/04/07
Dumont's methods are radical, but there's a fascinating method to his seeming cinematic madness.
04/08/04
Dumont is clearly fascinated by America’s wide-open spaces, and much of Twentynine Palms is a love poem to the way we look at the world.
02/27/04
A controversial French film about the Siamese twins of pleasure and pain and how you can't have one without the other.
04/08/04
Director Bruno Dumont successfully opens up what is at heart a theatrical piece involving just two people.
03/30/04
Welcome to one man’s personal apocalypse, which erupts like a nuclear bomb from inside the individual.
04/06/04
Cannot entirely be dismissed, because the director so adamantly knows what he's doing.
04/09/04
Top CriticEven adventurous moviegoers who are familiar with Bruno Dumont's previous features ... and consider themselves comfortable with his style -- long takes, graphically depicted sex, sudden violence -- may be taken aback by the intensity of this shocker.
04/09/04
What 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
Fascinating in the abstract but wearisome in reality.
05/04/05
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.
06/03/08
The sustained force of Bruno Dumont's vision of existence as a swirl of brute instincts may not be easy to absorb, but it marks him as a major filmmaker.
04/08/04
Top CriticAt turns sexy, ultra-violent and sweet, it will infiltrate your brain long after you've seen it.
04/08/04
The talented filmmaker laid an egg with this one.
11/16/04
It's cheap thrills in an arty package.
08/08/04
Over and over in Twentynine Palms, Dumont rubs our noses in every detail of this tumultuous, yet oddly inconsequential, relationship.
04/08/04
A hollow and pointless exercise.
03/22/04
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