Synopsis
A widower and her daughter witness the retirement of a colleague of his and the closing of her department at her university.
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Cast
- Alex DescasLionel
- Mati DiopJoséphine
- Nicole DoguéGabrielle
- Grégoire ColinNoé
- Julieth Mars ToussaintRené
- Ingrid CavenJoséphine's German Aunt
- Jean-Christophe FollyRuben
- Adèle AdoBoss of the Bar
- Mario CanongeColleague
- Stéphane PocrainProfessor
Recommendations
- 100
The Hollywood Reporter
Claire Denis, not always an easy director, is in top form here directing an almost all-black cast with grace and delicacy. For the happy few, this is French art house cinema at its unpretentious best. - 100
The New York Times
In its modest scope and mellow tone, 35 Shots of Rum resembles Olivier Assayas’s "Summer Hours," another recent film by a French director who has sometimes trafficked in provocation and extremity. Both movies embed extraordinary thematic richness within a simple, almost anecdotal narrative framework, and both achieve a rare eloquence about the state of the world by means of tact and reticence. - 100
Time Out
To fall in love with it, viewers only have to be receptive to a movie that examines the ties that bind with grace, wit and depth. - 100
The A.V. Club
The film evolves into a simple, intimate, acutely emotional portrait of a family reaching a painful crossroads. - 100
Los Angeles Times
For 20 years, Claire Denis has been among France's foremost filmmakers with her acute yet subtle observations of the ebbs and flows within relationships. Her perception and understanding seem to grow only richer over the years, and her newest film, 35 Shots of Rum, is surely one of her finest -- and thereby one of the best films of the year. - 90
Variety
Claire Denis’ latest may appear whisper-thin on the surface, yet it’s marvelously profound, illuminating the love between a father and daughter but also highlighting the difficulty of relinquishing what most people spend a lifetime putting into place. - 90
Village Voice
35 Shots is Denis's warmest, most radiant work, honoring a family of two's extreme closeness while suggesting its potential for suffocation. - 88
New York Post
Denis -- who has called the film a tribute to the great Japanese director Yasujiro Ozu -- keeps dialogue to a minimum as she delicately examines how immigration is changing the face of France.
