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Twentynine Palms

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A photographer (David Wissak) and his lover (Katia Golubeva) drive to the California desert in a red Hummer.
Twentynine Palms

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Critics Consensus

A muddled and inconsequential drama.

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Nick Schager Lessons of Darkness 05/04/2005
B
Fascinating in the abstract but wearisome in reality. Go to Full Review Ty Burr Boston Globe 07/16/2004
1.5/4
A textbook example of how a director can strip away plot, motivation, character, and meaning and still leave arrant pretension standing tall. Go to Full Review Ruthe Stein San Francisco Chronicle 06/18/2004
1/4
Muddled. Go to Full Review David N. Butterworth La Movie Boeuf 08/26/2019
2/4
"It's nothing sex in a movie about nothing people doing nothing in the middle of nowhere for no reason." Nicely put, Joshua Tanzer (offoffoff.com). Go to Full Review Donald J. Levit ReelTalk Movie Reviews 11/28/2013
Mutterings and short clipped dialogues in ellipses may convey reality but are hard on a movie audience. Go to Full Review Emanuel Levy EmanuelLevy.Com 06/15/2011
C
The French picture aims to titillate and shock with its graphic sex and violence, but ultimately it's monotonous and pretentious. Go to Full Review Read all reviews

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MARIO 05/15/2023 ITS SO BAD IT SHOULD BE ERASED FROM THE EARTH! See more 08/16/2018 Spoiler alert. The movie started out slow and then hit the brakes. Half way through I'm thinking 2.5-3. Even after the Deliverence scene I was willing to give it a 2. Then it sunk into melodramatic screaming which made me say "oh gawd" They couldn't even get the blood splatter right. See more 11/09/2015 Poor characters, and confused motivations. Plus for the ending, otherwise not worthwile. See more 11/16/2014 I think I was just in the right (bad) mood for a blast of total misanthropy. I found the ending weirdly cathartic for some reason. I probably shouldn't say that out loud. See more 09/20/2014 Still trying to process what I have just seen. I might have indigestion for some time. See more 04/17/2013 What did it want to say, really??!!! See more Read all reviews
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Bruno Dumont

Director

Yekaterina Golubeva

Katia

David Wissak

David

Bruno Dumont

Screenwriter

Jean Bréhat

Producer

Rachid Bouchareb

Producer

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Movie Info

Synopsis A photographer (David Wissak) and his lover (Katia Golubeva) drive to the California desert in a red Hummer.
Director
Bruno Dumont
Producer
Jean Bréhat, Rachid Bouchareb
Screenwriter
Bruno Dumont
Distributor
Wellspring Cinema
Production Co
The 7th Floor
Genre
Drama
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Sep 8, 2003, Original
Box Office (Gross USA)
$54.5K
Runtime
1h 59m