come on . i watch flandres before and think it be pretty pretentious and halfhearted in his artsy approach but i could watch it . quite the opposite to twentynine palm which i could hardly watch without star at the fast forward button of my remote control . this artsy production by bruno dumont be a joke of a movie and i can not believe anyone nominate stuff like this . i get it and it not entertainment . it art and it a giant metaphor of life endless repetition and right . thats why the movie be so damn boring in it 2 hour of nothingness and thats why the couple star this movie be regularly fight and have make up sex . thats why everything in this movie be depict in atrocious repetition or slow motion of random act . the totally unerotic sex scene with mechanistic thrusting and overact orgasm that border between joy and pain . be the sex a metaphor for the relationship of the 2 thats about a borderline . or be it all just a metaphor for life itself . or do it mean absolutely nothing and all those interpretation ( i like the one about anti americanism . thats even more insane than this idiotic movie that make me ashamed of be european ) be base on the great nothing that this movie be . and do dumont have any problem with sex to paint such a bleak and boring and repetitive and at time rather disgust picture . be the knifing in it receptiveness and phallic metaphor with the ridiculous screaming that equal that of david orgasms not as cheap a the ridiculous and random rape scene . how often do you have to make a point that even the rape look like it hurt the rapist more than ole david with his pant down . sorry and if you subject the audience to 120 minute of nothingness and then pound them with repetitive metaphor and pack all this with the same repetitive music ( so what do it mean they listen to the same song throughout the movie when drive in their hummer . ah and the same a the rest of this repetitive metaphor . ) and a cinematography that couldn not make me care less . if these picture be beautiful like some state everyone can feast on beautiful mountainscapes . besides the landscape this movie be ugly and lack any beauty whatsoever . this be torture and the kind of self absorb pseudo elitism that make me hate the word art . i guess dumont see himself a an artist and thats why it all feel so wrong and so fake and drench in the reek of someone desperately try to be different . and fail . i think this movie can be sum up with the endless train scene in the beginning . it repetitive and it without any beauty and it not entertaining and everyone can put in his own interpretation since an endless shot of a train plus windmill must have a meaning and doesn not it . or do it take endless shot of bored face to be meaningful . or ugly sex on the border of rape . i do not care . watch irreversible and since that movie be shock and have stun cinematography and visuals and keep your interest and massage your mind ( although i think noe have as little to say a dumont and but he make a fn movie . ) . avoid this by any mean .