Twentynine Palms

Twentynine Palms (2004)

  • 43% of critics liked it
    (37 reviews)

  • 41% of users liked it
    (1,450 ratings)

A couple drives their Humvee into the California desert. David (David Wissak) is ostensibly working, scouting locations near Twentynine Palms for a photo or film shoot. His girlfriend, Katia (Katia Golubeva from Leos Carax's Pola X), is along for the ride. David is American; Katia is French and… More

R, 1 hr. 59 min.
Directed By
Bruno Dumont
Written By
Bruno Dumont
Genres
Drama, Art House & International, Mystery & Suspense
In Theaters
Apr 9, 2004 Wide
On DVD
Sep 21, 2004
Wellspring

Critic Reviews

  • Ty Burr, Boston Globe

    A textbook example of how a director can strip away plot, motivation, character, and meaning and still leave arrant pretension standing tall.

  • Ruthe Stein, San Francisco Chronicle

    Muddled.

  • Michael Booth, Denver Post

    In 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.

  • Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post

    It's alternately monotonous, hot and dramatic, which makes for a peculiar, not entirely unsatisfying atmosphere of neo -- or is that post? -- noir.

  • Bob Townsend, Atlanta Journal-Constitution

    [Dumont] forces viewers to question not only what's on the screen, but ultimately, the very nature of reality.

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Featured Audience Ratings

  • Walter M


    [font=Century Gothic]In Bruno Dumont's "Twentynine Palms", Dave is a photographer scouting locations in the California desert along with his French girlfriend, Katia. They are your typical couple, alternating bouts of lovemaking and arguing. But the real star of this… More

  • Dimitris S


    Provocative 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… More

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