BlazeLime
Strong and Moving!
Lidia Draper
Great example of an old-fashioned, pure-at-heart escapist event movie that doesn't pretend to be anything that it's not and has boat loads of fun being its own ludicrous self.
Ezmae Chang
This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.
Quiet Muffin
This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.
mail-4017
Twentynine palms captures the atmosphere of the high desert, I am English and I have been to the area, I found it to be very powerful and raw, the desert isn't something that exists in England and the sense of overwhelming space with no consequence is captured brilliantly in this film.I would describe this as a photographer's film as there is very little camera movement, lots of action takes place in a mundane way in what is essentially a still image, these 'stills' are not especially beautifully composed or crafted but just real, the lack of camera movement and long lingering still shots add a sense of space and the mundane to the film.The plot is inconsequential to the atmosphere and essentially it is the place and setting with the sense of isolation that brings out the primal urges from our main characters weather they be sexual or violent. This is not classical entertainment but a brilliant art house movie, the only improvements for me would have been aesthetic, the movie could have been more crafted and still kept the atmosphere.
LoveAndDeath
Here is a summary of what happens in this film:1% - driving through city 85% - driving through beautiful scenery. I love driving through beautiful scenery, which is why I would never watch a movie of it, you really have to be there.5% - sitting in a hotel room grinding through utterly forgettable dialog9% - bodily functions:* Urination* Sex. 3 or 4 scenes (can't remember) and man-on-man rape* Eating0% - plot, storyline, motivation, character development.I love daring movies that defy convention to tell a story. Problem with this movie is there just isn't a story to tell. Since I love to drive through beautiful scenery, I have no particular interest in watching it in a movie. After 20 minutes I started fast- forwarding through the driving, leaving about 20 minutes of film left. Unfortunately that left mostly sex scenes, so I fast-forwarded through them and that left about 5 minutes of film. Maybe.
kenjha
An arrogant jerk and his whiny girlfriend embark on a journey to scout locations for photo shoots. The journey's rather uneventful but unfolds at an excruciatingly deliberate pace. They drive, make love, fight, make love, swim, make love, pet stray dogs, make love, buy groceries, make love, eat, make love, watch TV, make love, etc. This goes on for about 95 percent of the film's 17-hour running time. Then in the last few minutes of the film, something out of the blue happens that is totally unconnected to what has happened up until then. Warning: Dumont, the French genius who made the equally atrocious "L'Humanite," apparently is still on the loose and armed with a camera.
jkantor
It's not even enough to blame this on warped French sensibilities. There is no movie here - no plot, no story, no theme, no characters, no cinematography, no soundtrack - just boring shots of the desert inter cut with boring shots of awkward sex - until you finally and mercifully get an ending that is apparently from a different movie entirely. I think it must be a perverse joke by the director - some kind of statement on the absolute banality of our lives if we are willing to sit through something like this - and the fact that the best we can hope for is a violent end to our empty existence. The director should never be allowed to touch a camera again in his life.
