Rotten
A textbook example of how a director can strip away plot, motivation, character, and meaning and still leave arrant pretension standing tall.
Ty Burr, Boston Globe
Overview
A photographer and an unemployed woman embark on a chaotic trip to the California desert for a photo shoot, filled with passionate encounters and frequent fights. Their seemingly empty relationship takes a dark turn when a brutal incident abruptly ends their journey.
Director and cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
42%
Tomatometer
Rotten
Muddled.
Ruthe Stein, San Francisco Chronicle
Rotten
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 Booth, Denver Post
Rotten
It's alternately monotonous, hot and dramatic, which makes for a peculiar, not entirely unsatisfying atmosphere of neo -- or is that post? -- noir.
Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post
Fresh
[Dumont] forces viewers to question not only what's on the screen, but ultimately, the very nature of reality.
Bob Townsend, Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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