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02/09/06
Tuvalu (2001)
73 %
Reviews Counted: 26 Fresh: 19 Rotten:7 Average Rating: 6.8/10
Consensus:
Though a challenging watch, Tuvalu is visually striking and intriguingly quirky.
Runtime: 86 mins
Synopsis: A small town indoor pool and the limitless mind of one of the pool employees make the setting for this stunning comedic fantasy. The pool is where local residents go to escape the daily grind and enter a fantastical dream world. Adrift in these daydreams, the Anton (Denis Lavant) finds Eva... [More]
Genre: Science-Fiction/Fantasy
Starring: Denis Lavant, E.J. Callahan
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Top Critic
Tuvalu is like watching a Dali painting brought to life...and who wouldn't want to see that?
01/07/03
Ultimately a rewarding -- if weird -- experience. It's just too bad that it takes so long to get there.
12/08/02
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10/21/02
Fetishistic in its bemusement with gadgetry and painstaking in its slapstick-meets-high-emotion construction... Tuvalu is a decently engaging high farce, even if its influences are roundly on display.
09/23/02
A fascinating work that never quite coalesces, Tuvalu finally becomes oppressively repetitive.
07/20/02
The film is relentlessly arty and much too stylistically bizarre for mainstream taste ... But it has its own peculiar charm.
07/19/02
Tuvalu is astounding. It is also bizarre, challenging, and, at times, admirably overreaching.
05/31/02
Emil Christov's stunningly clear black and white cinematography presents images from another time, like a neo-Guy Maddin flick.
05/17/02
They used to be called moving pictures, and the captivating Tuvalu reminds us why.
03/14/02
Recommended for its singular vision -- a concept executed with bravura style, intelligent curiosity, and playful wit.
03/03/02
Top Critic
A gorgeous cough syrup hallucination -– the kind of beautiful, feverish dream to which you succumb while eardrum-piercingly high on over-the-counter cold medicine.
01/29/02
A disappointment, a precious and grotesque exercise reminiscent of Jean-Pierre Jeunet's Delicatessen, only less amusing.
12/14/01
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