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08/01/04
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Twentynine Palms (2004)
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Reviews Counted:13
Fresh:4
Rotten:9
Average Rating:4.6/10
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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Top CriticA 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 CriticIn 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 CriticIt'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 CriticCannot entirely be dismissed, because the director so adamantly knows what he's doing.
04/09/04
Top CriticAt turns sexy, ultra-violent and sweet, it will infiltrate your brain long after you've seen it.
04/08/04
Top CriticThe 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 CriticNihilism is a crude instrument, even for those with talent, and it can be especially hazardous for those who believe, as Dumont apparently does, that the sum total of existence is 'sex, love and evil.'
04/08/04
Top CriticThis is one of those films in which the Act of Driving becomes a 10-minute statement of high emptiness.
04/07/04
Top CriticA hollow and pointless exercise.
03/22/04
Top CriticDumont's taste for the elemental has always flirted with the moronic. But this time, he's dozed off at the wheel and drifted well over the line.
12/03/03
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