Twentynine Palms

Nr. 38 on Slant Magazine's 'The 100 Best Films of the Aughts' list: "This minimalist horror film from French auteur Bruno Dumont pares all aspects of narrative storytelling back, reducing plot, character, action, and image to the bare essential as a pair of bickering lovers venture out into the California desert on a photojournalism assignment, using the opportunity to screw and fight their way through a remote landscape. There is an unaccountable feeling of dread in the images, perhaps suggested by a threateningly arid soundscape, and one has the feeling that predators are lurking just beyond the edge of the frame waiting to pounce. The climax is as harrowing as I Spit on Your Grave (1978), only told through the eye of an art-house provocateur." [2010]

Featured in Kinomagazin: Das Schöne ist mein Dämon - Der Filmemacher Bruno Dumont (2007)