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  • 2016
  • Unrated
  • Strand Releasing
  • 1 h 31 m
  • 2016
  • Unrated
  • Strand Releasing
  • 1 h 31 m

Summary Isabelle (Isabelle Huppert) and Gérard (Gérard Depardieu) go to a strange appointment in Death Valley, California. They have not seen each other for years and are here to answer an invitation from their son Michael, a photographer, which they received after his suicide, six months ago.

Directed By: Guillaume Nicloux

Written By: David H. Pickering, Guillaume Nicloux

  • 2016
  • Unrated
  • Strand Releasing
  • 1 h 31 m
  • 2016
  • Unrated
  • Strand Releasing
  • 1 h 31 m

Valley of Love

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 13 Critic Reviews
59
User Score Mixed or Average Based on 9 User Ratings
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Summary Isabelle (Isabelle Huppert) and Gérard (Gérard Depardieu) go to a strange appointment in Death Valley, California. They have not seen each other for years and are here to answer an invitation from their son Michael, a photographer, which they received after his suicide, six months ago.

Directed By: Guillaume Nicloux

Written By: David H. Pickering, Guillaume Nicloux

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 13 Critic Reviews
59
54% Positive
7 Reviews
38% Mixed
5 Reviews
8% Negative
1 Review

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 13 Critic Reviews
59
54% Positive
7 Reviews
38% Mixed
5 Reviews
8% Negative
1 Review

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88
Mar 21, 2016
The film enables us to feel the emotional weight of a posthumous letter precisely because we can only imagine its contents.
By Diego Semerene FULL REVIEW
80
Mar 24, 2016
It's illuminating to see Huppert and Depardieu in a different mode, and Huppert brings a delicate physical and emotional fragility to her role. These two are fantastic, and they're fantastic together.
By Katie Walsh FULL REVIEW
70
Mar 24, 2016
This movie is finally only about Isabelle Huppert and Gérard Depardieu, and that’s enough.
By Manohla Dargis FULL REVIEW
63
Mar 25, 2016
The performers continue to exhibit those qualities forty years after the fact, reuniting in the evocative, sometimes puzzling, and sometimes moving Valley of Love.
By Glenn Kenny FULL REVIEW
60
Mar 24, 2016
There are gentle rewards to be gained from the initially brittle, gradually tender rapport between two actors of contrasting greatness.
By Guy Lodge FULL REVIEW
42
Mar 24, 2016
A film as mercurial as this can be an impressive thing, but the back half is so filled with half-baked metaphysics, pseudo-Lynchian maybe-dreams, and a sour, cheap conclusion that feels nihilistically cruel to at least one of its characters, that even the pleasures of watching the actors on screen start to fade away.
By Oliver Lyttelton FULL REVIEW
30
Mar 22, 2016
Isabelle and Gérard's regrets and laments about their parenting skills betray no bone-deep rue or shame but are delivered with all the conviction of two luminaries merely running their lines.
By Melissa Anderson FULL REVIEW

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User Score
Mixed or Average Based on 9 User Ratings
5.7
33% Positive
3 Ratings
44% Mixed
4 Ratings
22% Negative
2 Ratings

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Mixed or Average Based on 9 User Ratings
5.7
33% Positive
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44% Mixed
4 Ratings
22% Negative
2 Ratings

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Production Company Les Films du Worso, LGM Productions, Scope Pictures, France 3 Cinéma, DD Productions, Cinéfeel Prod, Cinémage 9, Soficinéma 11, Cofinova 11, Palatine Étoile 12, Canal+, France Télévisions, Le Pacte, Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée (CNC), Tax Shelter du Gouvernement Fédéral Belge, SCOPE Invest, NU Films
Release Date Mar 25, 2016
Duration 1 h 31 m
Rating Unrated
Genres
Tagline Waiting for a miracle to cure lost love and regret.
Website https://le-pacte.com/international/film/valley-of-love
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Awards

César Awards, France
• 1 Win & 3 Nominations
Lumiere Awards, France
• 2 Nominations
Cannes Film Festival
• 1 Nomination

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