Out of the Past 2024 / Twentynine Palms / France, USA, Germany 2003
Two people drive a red Hummer through the seemingly endless California desert near the town of Twentynine Palms. He is American, she is Russian. They speak French together, although neither can speak it well enough to express how they feel. They make love, fight, and make up. Two characters lost in a stunning rocky landscape, claustrophobically bound to one another, enclosed in the space of the car. A bad omen has haunted them since they began their journey, but it’s impossible to say whether the imagined horror is any worse than the real one – quite the opposite, in fact. Bruno Dumont’s third feature film is both atmospheric love story and oppressive horror, and doesn’t shy away from explicit nudity and nerve-wracking violence.
Anna Kořínek
119 min / Color, Data Files
Director Bruno Dumont
/ Screenplay Bruno Dumont
/ Dir. of Photography George Lechaptois
/ Editor Dominique Petrot
/ Producer Rachid Bouchareb, Jean Bréhat
/ Production 3B Productions
/ Coproduction The 7th Floor, Thoke Moebius Film Company
/ Cast Yekaterina Golubeva, David Wissak
/ Sales mk2 Films
Bruno Dumont (1958, Bailleul, France). Selected filmography: The Life of Jesus (La Vie de Jésus, 1997), Humanity (L'Humanité, 1999), Twentynine Palms (2003), Outside Satan (Hors Satan, 2011), Slack Bay (Ma loute, 2016), France (2021), The Empire (L'Empire, 2024).
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