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| | The New American Old West: Bruno Dumont's Twentynine Palms |
 | | Twentynine Palms fits comfortably into the art film genre, and, as such, it will likely be appreciated by those most willing to rationally dissect its network of symbols and allusions. |
 | | Reviewers of Twentynine Palms have, almost without exception, called attention to the former, citing Psycho (Alfred Hitchcock, 1960), Zabriskie Point (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1970) and Deliverance (John Boorman, 1972) as a few of the film's most obvious forebears (4). |
 | | They are leaving the city, headed east, deep into the Joshua Tree National Park, where David plans to scout locations for a film project. |
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