David, an independent photographer, and Katia, a young, unemployed woman, leave LA for the desert to find sets for a magazine photo shoot. Based in a motel in 29 Palms, they spend their days discovering and scouting the Joshua Tree Desert and losing their way on the roads and trails at the wheel of their 4x4. An impassioned pair, coupling incessantly anywhere and anytime, they fight and make up, according to the schedule of their daily lives and experiences. The suspense rising from the banality of their days and their extravagant behavior leads to a peak of ignominy and their ruin.
Bruno Dumont - Director
Bruno Dumont - Screenplay
Jean Bréhat - Producer
Rachid Bouchareb - Producer
David Wissak - David
Katerina Golubeva - Katia
Jeremy Davies - The vagabond
Bruno Dumont is a French director and screenwriter. His first full length feature, The Life of Jesus, was awarded the Jean-Vigo Award in 1997. With his second film, Humanité, he won the Interpretation Price and Grand Jury Prize in Cannes in 1999. Twentynine Palms was his first film directed abroad, shot in California. He returned to France, however, to direct Flanders, for which he received the Grand Prize at the Cannes Festival in 2006.