35 Shots of Rum

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35 Shots of Rum

2009,

1h 40m,

Drama

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97%

68 Reviews

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65%

1,000+ Ratings

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97%

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68 Reviews

65%

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1,000+ Ratings

Lionel (Alex Descas), a widower, has raised his daughter, Josephine (Mati Diop), on his own since she was young. The two are used to living alone, dependent solely on one another. But, now that Josephine is in college, Lionel is beginning to realize they cannot stay isolated forever. Lionel reluctantly accepts the fact that his daughter has grown up and will one day leave him, when their neighbor Noe (Grégoire Colin) makes his long-harbored feelings for Josephine known.

Critics Consensus

This slow-moving French family drama is rich, complex, subtle and emotionally eloquent.

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Dave Kehr

Film Comment Magazine

Sep 24, 2014

A sort of ballet of emotions, executed with weightless grace and poise.

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Calvin Wilson

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Feb 11, 2010

4/4

Claire Denis, an acclaimed French director, makes films that defy the rules of Hollywood.

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Cliff Doerksen

Chicago Reader

Jan 26, 2010

It's a beautiful picture but very quietly so, and definitely not for the ADHD set.

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Shannon Gramas

Spectrum Culture

May 27, 2022

35 Shots of Rum would seem to be a radical departure for director Denis, a warm, intimate, minor key domestic drama which borrows much of its internal plot mechanics from Ozu’s masterful Late Spring. A closer examination reveals that not to be the case.

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Kathy Fennessy

Seattle Film Blog

Sep 16, 2021

3.5/4

The result marks one of [Claire] Denis's smaller films--and one of [Alex] Descas's best and most subtle performances.

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Dustin Chang

Floating World

Mar 24, 2021

Said to be an homage to Ozu, 35 rhums comfortably slips in to the universality of human conditions. Paper lanterns in Germany, rice cookers in an African household in France are completely in harmony with their surroundings. It's a beautiful film.

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Finn R

Feb 22, 2019

Ozu's Late Spring is one of the greatest films of all time for my money and if someone were to tell me that it was being remade I might take to the streets in protest; however, Claire Denis accomplishes the impossible in translating the wistful melancholy of Ozu into a new format that may not equal the original but certainly does it justice.

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Synopsis

Lionel (Alex Descas), a widower, has raised his daughter, Josephine (Mati Diop), on his own since she was young. The two are used to living alone, dependent solely on one another. But, now that Josephine is in college, Lionel is beginning to realize they cannot stay isolated forever. Lionel reluctantly accepts the fact that his daughter has grown up and will one day leave him, when their neighbor Noe (Grégoire Colin) makes his long-harbored feelings for Josephine known.

Director: Claire Denis
Producer: Bruno Pèsery
Screenwriter: Claire Denis, Jean-Pol Fargeau
Distributor: Cinema Guild
Genre: Drama
Original Language: Canadian French
Release Date (Theaters): Sep 16, 2009, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Apr 17, 2020
Box Office (Gross USA): $177.5K
Runtime: 1h 40m

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