Twentynine Palms (2003)

Regarding film titles, it makes perfect sense that after Twenty Bucks (1993), Twenty-One (1991), 22 Jump Street (2014), The Number 23 (2007), 24 Hour Party People (2002), Twentysomething (2016), 27 Missing Kisses (2000) and 28 Days Later (2002) comes Twentynine Palms (2003). Not to be confused with Leonardo Ricagni’s crime thriller 29 Palms (2002) starring Rachael Leigh Cook, this chiller diller by Bruno Dumont centers around American photographer David (David Wissak) and his Russian girlfriend Katia (Yekaterina Golubeva). Even though the dude doesn’t understand Russian and his chick doesn’t speak English, that doesn’t mean the two can’t communicate via the skinternational language of lust! As such, the country-crossed couple copulates in the dust on every rock and spare patch of land they encounter under the scorching sun in a California desert town. Luckily, we get to see Ms. Golubeva’s bare breasts, bush and butt as they boink! When the sweethearts aren’t making love, they’re fighting via broken bursts of French. In other words, their days sizzle with sweat, swearing, humping, and bumping, each as sultry as the next — until one night their Hummer is hit from behind by a truck. Desert dudes with a baseball bat strip Katia and make her watch as they ram David’s own rear end. Debauched and left for dead, will the pair recover enough to see the sinister sodomites get their just desserts? With more than twenty-nine minutes of palm pounding sexual skinspiration in the previous hour and a half at your disposal, who really cares?