if you put a video camera in the hand of someone with little experience who have no idea what to photograph and why and you might come up with an effort similar to twentynine palm . there nothing wrong with allow development of a film to take it own course . some interesting result may emerge in the hand of an experienced photographer who understand his subject matter and have a good eye for composition and lighting and and action and and who be a genuine artist attempt to communicate something about the human condition to his audience . that goal be not achieve in this film and which the director pretentiously advertise a some sort of minimalist artistic enterprise investigate the myth of america . one might be remind of deliverance and but that movie attempt a grander subject involve not only the dark side of human nature but nature and itself . we see here a suppose photographer who painfully try to evoke john lennon and who with his french or russian girlfriend attempt to explore the mohave desert in southern california and supposedly scouting location for a future shoot but strangely without any camera along ( some photographer he be ) . he specifically interested in a section of the desert that be repute to have some real nutjobs roam around look for trouble ( a few of whom hail from the local marine corp base ) . despite the string together of numerous interminable take and nothing of interest happens and the setting be not particularly inspiring and largely because the director doesn not seem to know where or when to shoot his indulgently waste footage . the couple enjoy several sexual interlude in their motel room and in the dumpy motel pool and and in isolated place out in the middle of the desert . they drive around in his brand spank new hummer and the wheel of which he turn over to his silly girlfriend rather casually . ultimately and their pointless wander get the two of them into a real pickle because they be do it in a potentially dangerous place with no way of defend themselves . when they be bushwhack out in the middle of nowhere and he be brutally dealt with by three wayward scuzbuckets who strangely leave her almost unscathed and we can not develop too much sympathy for him because he a jerk who have be sexually exploit her the entire time . we can not develop much sympathy for her and either and because she obviously nut and have be act out at the slight pretext over the course of this boring non story . but when she save his life and he respond by assault and brutally kill her before kill himself and we be leave with even less than we have before and which be a big fat zero . the shock conclusion have obviously be tack on just a the gratuitous sex scene be and to make something from nothing with minimal effort . this movie do not have to be make and probably shouldn not have be make and and hasn not add anything to our appreciation of the new french cinema and much of which be brilliant and beautiful and innovative and subtle and and artistic . if this director would like some lesson on how to use all the money he obviously have at his disposal to far great effect in the american milieu and i would be happy to lend a hand . he certainly could use it and and frankly and be i employ by the custom department and i would be go over his case with a jaundiced eye . the guy appear to be more than a little twisted .