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Twentynine Palms [DVD]

Yekaterina Golubeva (Actor), David Wissak (Actor), Bruno Dumont (Director, Writer) Rated:
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Format: DVD
3.5 out of 5 stars 92 ratings
IMDb5.1/10.0
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Genre Romance
Format Color, Dolby, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, Letterboxed
Contributor Bruno Dumont, Yekaterina Golubeva, David Wissak
Language English, French
Runtime 1 hour and 59 minutes

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From Bruno Dumont, one of the leading visionaries of world cinema, comes Twentynine Palms, a mesmerizing story of love, sex and evil set deep in the Joshua Tree desert. While scouting for a photo shoot location, an American photographer (David Wissak) and his Russian/French girlfriend (Katia Golubeva) spend their days engaging in impassioned fights, hasty reconciliations and frequent bouts of sex, until a shocking act of desperation leads to an unforeseen and brutal climax. DVD extras include: 5.1 Extraction, Trailer, Interview with Director, EPK, Making of Reel, Subtitle Control

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No one can accuse director Bruno Dumont of taking the easy road. Dumont's Life of Jesus and L'Humanite are fascinating, but they test the comfort zone of even the most devoted art-house maven. Twentynine Palms serves up more of Dumont's uncompromising rigor, this time set in America. A couple scout locations in the desert around Joshua Tree, and spend most of their time fighting or having sex. The frankness of the director's approach to sex does not prepare one for the shock of the truly bleak final reels. This Last Tango in Zabrieskie Point has a lulling, creepy power before it reaches those shocks, although actors David Wissak and Katia Golubeva are perhaps not as compelling as Dumont wants them to be. Of course, he's showing empty people traversing one of the emptiest places on earth--so maybe it fits. In any case, this film will shake you if you stick with it. --Robert Horton

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  • Aspect Ratio ‏ : ‎ 2.35:1
  • Is Discontinued By Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No
  • MPAA rating ‏ : ‎ NR (Not Rated)
  • Package Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.1 x 5.42 x 0.58 inches; 2.88 ounces
  • Director ‏ : ‎ Bruno Dumont
  • Media Format ‏ : ‎ Color, Dolby, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, Letterboxed
  • Run time ‏ : ‎ 1 hour and 59 minutes
  • Actors ‏ : ‎ Yekaterina Golubeva, David Wissak
  • Subtitles: ‏ : ‎ English
  • Studio ‏ : ‎ Fox Lorber
  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0002KQNPO
  • Writers ‏ : ‎ Bruno Dumont
  • Customer Reviews:
    3.5 out of 5 stars 92 ratings

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  • monique
    5.0 out of 5 stars Griity social commentry
    Reviewed in the United States on May 8, 2018
    I live in Joshua Tree, so this film was made in my backyard; Twentynine Palms, a fascinating dead end of a town. Nothing beyond it but increasingly rotted out houses of miners, loners and vagabonds long gone. This film is about pretentious L.A. types traveling to an area they consider trendy and cool. In actuality, it is a hard baked area with little commerce, lowest rung people surviving on the fringes. You start to notice that the L.A. couple are utterly self absorbed, bringing nothing in the way of kindness to the community. Quite selfish really; loud sex, outdoor sex, not paying for ice creams, etc...
    Spoiler alert here.
    This rather unlikable couple keep jeeping thru JT National Park, and at one point come upon an old house and two dogs, one of them with only three legs. L.A. dude ends up accidentally injuring the already maimed mutt, but the creature survives, and they drive off. Later in the film, a truck hijacks them, and three locals pull the couple from the jeep and do the worst thing that can be done to another man while the French L.A. chick is forced to watch. I watched this film right before bed, so was able to sleep on it;woke up realizing that this film is a gritty social commentary; Priviledged, trendy types vs. true poverty. The locals feel kicked while they are down, forgotten, like the poor three legged dog. And what they don't have in class and education they have in might, and boy, will they punch back! Not a safe world, and the foreboding feeling throughout this film never lets us forget it! It's a good art film, lots of suggestive symbolism. Personally, I think it is extremely apt in this age of Trump. I have seen trucks out here with TRUMP spelled out in Duct Tape for bumper stickers. You know there are sawed off shotguns in the back, and out here in the desert its not uncommon to come upon Militia looking structures with Confederate Flags flying high and proud. Its intense! This film, though made decades age, really captures this real thing that is a part of America and Ultra Trumpy. For the people who love the fringier films, enjoy!
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  • Floyd Smith
    4.0 out of 5 stars Explosive 29 Palms on amazon
    Reviewed in the United States on June 4, 2011
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    29 Palms is about a couple on a getaway in the desert and it is a good love story with it ups and downs a lot of nudity but it is truly a good film you follow a couple on their journey doing things together with lots of sex and and exploring each others bodies it is good until the end when the couple is ran down and attacked by three men who apparently are on drugs the remove them from the vehicle the girl is stripped you think she is going to be raped but the beat the guy senseless and when his pants are pulled down you know what comes next warning the ending is brutal
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  • Justin Thiele
    3.0 out of 5 stars NOT region free
    Reviewed in the United States on September 27, 2024
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    This is Region B and not Region Free as stated.
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  • Amateur curmudgeon
    1.0 out of 5 stars The worst movie I've seen in the past 5 or 10 years
    Reviewed in the United States on March 5, 2005
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    Others have already described the movie; so I shall not repeat what has already said.

    Dumont makes a movie, somewhat reminiscent of the late 60s early 70s "road" movies, in which a couple, gets in a car and drives off, to nowhere in particular. I hated those movies, but at least, in those movies the emotions the characters exhibited had some kind of rationale to it. Here the emotions are totally disconnected from reality, have nothing to do with what is going on in the screen, and seem only to be there to move the plot, if there is one, along.

    Katia, the girl, who seems quite psycotic if you ask me, keeps getting angry for no reason whatsoever; for instance, she entices pair of dogs to follow their moving car, then gets p#$sed at her boyfriend, when he hits one of them. By the time the movie approaches its dismal end, I did not care anymore how the director was going to wrap it up.

    The DVD includes a "Director's note of intent" (always a bad sign) A mix of Felliniesque dialog, blended with Sun Tzu; not a good combination. At the end of the "note of intent" the director finishes with "Envisage this film only in relation to the means employed and so only work from instinct"

    Well, instinct will not get you a viewable movie; I don't think you could make a worse movie, if you were trying to achieve it. It is not the violence or sex, other movies have that but still have some redeeming values, photography, artistic creation. There is no redeeming value in this. Just a waste of the DVD plastic.
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  • Mark Twain
    5.0 out of 5 stars My favorite Dumont
    Reviewed in the United States on February 15, 2006
    Yeah, it's good.

    This is my favorite movie from Bruno Dumont. Many people compare it with other films or say that it is really bad, but I disagree. This film is totally original, or as original as one can be these days. There exists nothing else like it. The desert, the sex, the dialogue, the suspense, the horror. Because of my particular sensibilities, it gave me many of the same feeling as a great horror/thriller and much more.
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  • artist
    5.0 out of 5 stars Interesting and weird
    Reviewed in the United States on May 23, 2005
    I enjoyed the non-Hollywood style of the movie and the beautiful landscape of Joshua Tree National Park. This movie was slow, like many other European movies, but it was necessary to build up the tension and provide contrast for the unexpected ending.
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  • L. Clark Jr.
    4.0 out of 5 stars pretty good
    Reviewed in the United States on December 8, 2009
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    well i recieved the video in 3 days so i cant complain, was in excellent condition
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  • Akis Kapranos
    5.0 out of 5 stars A masterpiece beyond belief.
    Reviewed in the United States on November 17, 2004
    The anatomy of human emotions that Dumont achieves is stunning - really close to masters like Antonioni or Angelopoulos.

    For real film lovers - beware.
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  • Lisa Dallari
    3.0 out of 5 stars twenty
    Reviewed in Italy on June 5, 2015
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    La versione, italiana, è però in lingua originale con sottotitoli italiani. Film particolare, molto lento, basato sui dialoghi e la recitazione. Che ha un crescendo di tensione nel finale.
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  • cinefil50
    5.0 out of 5 stars Du cinéma qui respecte le spectateur et qui lui fait confiance , tout simplement
    Reviewed in France on November 3, 2011
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    RESUME : unn homme et une femme s'enfoncent dans un désert de Californie , dans un Hummer , pour des repérages photos. Ils font l'amour souvent et frénétiquement , se baignent dans une piscine , s'engueulent , ne se comprennent pas très bien langue) , se quittent et se retrouvent . Lui , c'est un " beau mec " très porté sur la chose , égoïste aussi ; elle , une beauté slave , sensible , fragile , très bien faite , mais qui ne conduit pas du tout bien l'engin . Le film ne semble pas raconter grand chose , il ne semble pas se passer grand chose , il est tourné avec pas grand chose , il n'y a pas de belles musiques rock ou western made in USA pour aider : or , il intrigue puis retient et , finalement , fascine . Ce film ne vous quitte plus . Pourquoi ?

    Les acteurs se sont beaucoup donnés et livrés , à mon avis j'ai pensé à "Buffalo66" de Vincent Gallo , que j'ai acheté et vu récemment , autre histoire d' un couple difficile . Ce couple est sur le fil du rasoir , dans le genre malsain , prêt à basculer dans le n'importe quoi à tout moment : ils s'aiment ou plutôt se désirent mais pourraient tout aussi bien se sauter à la gorge et s'étriper .

    Le metteur en scène a un regard , une vision de l'Humanité titre d'un ses films , magnifique aussi , pas franchement optimiste , que personne n'est obligé de partager . Il sait filmer les corps nus , l'accouplement dans sa part d'animalité ; c'est fort et intense et rigoureux , mais ce n'est pas graveleux ni même obscène à l'écran : très rare , ça , quand on y pense ... Il fait sentir la chaleur immobile , la solitude écrasante , dans le grand nulle part du désert , puis la montée insidieuse des signaux d'alerte ,anodins , de l'inquiétude diffuse puis de l'angoisse chez le spectateur , qui sent qu'il va se passer quelque chose de terrible ...

    J'ai une petite réserve sur les toutes dernières minutes du film . Chacun jugera .
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  • Robert
    5.0 out of 5 stars 29 palms
    Reviewed in Canada on March 30, 2019
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    very enjoyable with a real twist at the end.
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  • Cornali Yves
    5.0 out of 5 stars Une découverte du grand Bruno Dumont.
    Reviewed in France on May 6, 2013
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    Film très original d'un poète philosophe, qui nous entraîne aux USA. Du grand Dumont à déguster sans modération. Bravo l'artiste !
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  • Ginoprog
    4.0 out of 5 stars Zabriskie point... Antonioni-Dumont
    Reviewed in Italy on November 18, 2013
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    Un ottimo film, un film che non vuole fare nessuna morale, un "semplice" film sull'amore tra due individui, un fotografo e la sua fedele compagna. Si amano,si odiano, si violentano....
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