Though a challenging watch, Tuvalu is visually striking and intriguingly quirky. Read critic reviews
Tuvalu
1999, Comedy/Drama, 1h 41m
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Movie Info
A poetic fairy-tale told only with images and international dialogue. The characters revolve around an old public swimming pool in a building which looks more like a cathedral in the middle of a wasteland. Three people live there: the blind father who hankers after times past, the mother who charges buttons for admission, and a son (Denis Lavant) who has never ventured outside. A young woman (Chulpan Hamatova) brings a breath of life from the outside but the cathedral-swimming pool is condemned.
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
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Director: Veit Helmer
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Producer: Veit Helmer
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Writer: Veit Helmer, Michaela Beck
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Release Date (Theaters): original
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Release Date (Streaming):
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Box Office (Gross USA): $411.7K
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Runtime:
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Distributor: Indican Releasing, Buena Vista International [us]
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Sound Mix: Dolby SR, Dolby Digital
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Aspect Ratio: Scope (2.35:1)
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Critic Reviews for Tuvalu
Audience Reviews for Tuvalu
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Can a picturesque but dilapidated Turkish bathhouse pass a government inspection, and can love between a poolboy and a female patron flourish after the girl's father is killed when a piece of the crumbling ceiling falls on him? This nearly silent, tinted experimental feature with slapstick tributes is beautiful to look at but difficult to follow; the set peices are excellent, in small doses, but my attention drifted overall.
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At first you really don't know what going on. But the uniqueness of the film is where it stands out.
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