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David, an independent photographer, and Katia, an unemployed woman, leave Los Angeles, en route to the southern California desert, where they search a natural set to use as a backdrop for a magazine p...( read more 
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MCT:September 30, 2008Provocative but not relentless.I remote myself in a vast plain,mingled with the sky's peacefulness.I wouldn't wish though to have such temper aside of me.Palms as a fake plastic manuscript of thoughts and determinations.The couple is disjointed and yet so loving you feel their inner loss towards the end.Dumont shows how much a film can present without shaky camera movement and a classic film-making persona.The outcast figure.
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MCT:May 4, 2008
I luv the desert & I ADORE BDumont. All that isolated, quiet intimacy, makes u feel like a voyeur. See L'HUMANITE.
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MCT:November 8, 2007I watched this because it was on cable late at night and I used to be stationed in 29 Palms, CA. Beyond seeing some familiar sites and a hot Russian chick getting plowed in the desert, this movie is a pile of stool. I couldn't finish it. I hear something stupendous happens at the end but the first hour and half is so terrible who cares. If this throws me into the unsophisticated Plebe crowd apart from the artsy-farsty types then so be it. One man's garbage is another man's art. Too bad I quit smoking dope.
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MCT:November 6, 2007Fairly simple plot and a shocking climax that comes from no-where,however it takes a long time to actually get there.Having said that though, the film wouldn't have worked as well if there was a gradual build up.
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MCT:May 31, 2007
Twentynine Palms is a true test of a persons patients. It follows David and Katia who are on a trip to Twentynine Palms, CA and to Joshua Tree National Park because David is a photographer who has been sent to take pictures of the vast desert. David and Katia are lovers, yet she speaks only French and he is American.
The theme of Adam and Eve is a predominate one throughout Twentynine Palms. The idea of David and Katia being out in the raw, empty desert where they appear naked on multiple occasions, they don't speak the same language, and they are one with nature. They clime on rocks, lay down naked under the sun, alone. All of this with minimal communication, and while the audience is lost with them in the moment, with no apparent reason.
Each scene within Twentynine Palms is given ample time to give its meaning, as Dumont methodically moves this symbolistic story along. While this story never becomes complex, its themes run deep and seem to give a never ending experience to the viewer to complete their understanding of what Dumont's complete message is.
Shot as a quasi-documentary Twentynine Palms' camera work is never intrusive, always an onlooker to these two people and their interactions with this town and park. It, along with the audio mix are an amazing tool used by Dumont not only to build themes within, but also to create foreshadowing and it really helps build an atmosphere that leaves the viewer wonder not if, but when something will happen to our characters. It has a overhanging horror over it, yet for much of the movie all fear is sub-conscience.
As it closes Twentynine Palms completes its final theme, the need for a defined masculinity, David throughout the film attempts to do this though things like driving a Hummer, or talking about shaving his head to look more manly, but ultimately what he does in the final moments of the film was his only way he could become that image of masculinity. -
MCT:September 4, 2006una de las tantas peliculas raras que he visto, excelente fotografia, historia rara... pelicula nada normal con lo que vemos a diario...
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MCT:July 7, 2006
A simple, slow, boring story that I really like. A story that unravels in circles, as the characters do. I like it for being simple, narrated by two protagonists that seem lost whitin themselves. I enjoy the monotone, and how sex is the only thing that united this two-some. A great surprise ending is out to get you.
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