35 Shots of Rum (35 rhums)
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- Synopsis
- Time and romantic attraction threaten to sour a family relationship in this drama from writer and director Claire Denis. Lionel (Alex Descas) is a middle-aged widower who makes his living driving a train and shares an apartment with his ......
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- Starring
- Alex Descas, Mati Diop, Grégoire Colin, Nicole Dogue, Ingrid Caven
- Director(s)
- Claire Denis
- Distributor(s)
- Cinema Guild
- MPAA Rating
- Not Rated
- Runtime
- 100 min.
Critic Reviews
In its modest scope and mellow tone, 35 Shots of Rum resembles Olivier Assayas’s "Summer Hours," another recent film by a French director who has sometimes trafficked in provocation and extremity. Both movies embed extraordinary thematic richness within a simple, almost anecdotal narrative framework, and both achieve a rare eloquence about the state of the world by means of tact and reticence.Read the full review
For 20 years, Claire Denis has been among France's foremost filmmakers with her acute yet subtle observations of the ebbs and flows within relationships. Her perception and understanding seem to grow only richer over the years, and her newest film, 35 Shots of Rum, is surely one of her finest -- and thereby one of the best films of the year.Read the full review
The film evolves into a simple, intimate, acutely emotional portrait of a family reaching a painful crossroads.Read the full review
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94% 35 Shots of Rum
10/17/09 This slow-moving French family drama is rich, complex, subtle and emotionally eloquent. | Rotten Tomatoes -
94% 35 Shots of Rum
09/18/09 This slow-moving French family drama is rich, complex, subtle and emotionally eloquent. | Rotten Tomatoes -
Film: Review:35 Shots Of Rum
09/16/09 French director Claire Denis is one of the most magical filmmakers in the world, a moody, intuitive artist whose best movies— Beau Travail and Friday Night among them—have a pure, elliptical quality that transcends the page, as if she's flying without a screenplay. | The A.V. Club -
Object Desire: Claire Denis’s “35 Shots of Rum”
09/16/09 In the simple steadfast training of the camera lens, cinema has the ability to give seemingly mundane objects or actions an almost supernatural provenance; in so doing, it can change how we see the world. | indieWIRE -
92% 35 Shots of Rum
09/15/09 This slow-moving French family drama is rich, complex, subtle and emotionally eloquent. | Rotten Tomatoes -
91% 35 Shots of Rum
09/13/09 This slow-moving French family drama is rich, complex, subtle and emotionally eloquent. | Rotten Tomatoes