Twentynine Palms

Name: Twentynine Palms
Genre: Drama, Horror
Released: April 9, 2004
Duration: 119 min
Rating: 43
Cast: David Wissak, Yekaterina Golubeva

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Wellspring Media | Release Date: April 9, 2004

Starring: David Wissak, Yekaterina Golubeva

Summary: Twentynine Palms is a small, remote American town deep in the desert of central California. It provides the unique setting for this darkly comedic chronicle of the romantic and sexual life of a young couple in love. (Wellspring Media)

Director: Bruno Dumont

Genre(s): Drama, Horror

Runtime: 119 min

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V.A. Musetto

At turns sexy, ultra-violent and sweet, it will infiltrate your brain long after you've seen it. Read full review

TV Guide Magazine Ken Fox

Even adventurous moviegoers who are familiar with Bruno Dumont's previous features...may be taken aback by the intensity of this shocker. Read full review

Elizabeth Weitzman

Slams us with an absurdly repugnant ending, for absolutely no reason other than to shock viewers and generate cheap controversy. Read full review

Michael O'Sullivan

It's alternately monotonous, hot and dramatic, which makes for a peculiar, not entirely unsatisfying atmosphere of neo -- or is that post? -- noir. What it all means, of course, I have no idea. Read full review

Frank Scheck

Ultimately a hollow and pointless exercise. Read full review

Ruthe Stein

Muddled, to put it kindly. Read full review

Lisa Nesselson

Fails to captivate or intrigue at the most basic level. Read full review

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AntonC.

May 29, 2006

The only simile that suits all the attributes to this film is "as hell".

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ChadS.

Feb 11, 2006

The central question surrounding "29 Palms" for me is if the final violent act would've occured independently of the nod to "Deliverance". After all, why else would you be driving around the California desert? [***SPOILERS***] Maybe, just maybe, David was double-crossed by those men in The central question surrounding "29 Palms" for me is if the final violent act would've occured independently of the nod to "Deliverance". After all, why else would you be driving around the California desert? [***SPOILERS***] Maybe, just maybe, David was double-crossed by those men in the white truck. If you believe he was, the scene in which David boots Katerina out of the motel room, post-b.j., gains a noir-ish edge. Maybe her paranoia about that passing car is an unconscious premonition. Unlike Catherine Breillart's "Fat Girl", filmmaker Bruno Dumont might be planting clues under our noses.… Expand

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