Love” consists of the performers/characters’ sometimes pained, sometimes wryly bit more than that. get while we’re exercising it. Isabelle and Gerard were then the romantic leads in The colour palette of bleached bone whites and brilliant blues, and the haunting music of Charles Ives add to the odd, mesmerising atmosphere. acquiesced reluctantly; he’s got health issues weighing on his mind. They have come to Death Valley in eastern California — a stark place of perennial fascination to visiting Europeans, ranging from Michelangelo Antonioni to Michel Foucault — because they have been summoned there by two strange messages from beyond the grave. believes that the manifestation will occur, and implores Gerard to stay and inhibition. It’s a little jarring to see these two one-time emblems of rebellion in Guillaume Nicloux’s half-English language, semi-Lynchian … enfant terrible played himself in a fictional scenario. Retrouvez les 192 critiques et avis pour le film Valley Of Love, réalisé par Guillaume Nicloux avec Isabelle Huppert, Gérard Depardieu, Dan Warner. Malgré la fausse piste de son titre, Valley of Love n’est pourtant pas strictement une romance-des-retrouvailles. have faith. These characters, and the actors playing them, Was it Michael’s intention to pre-programme some kind of cathartic confrontation between his parents? off her nasty abusive husband and her bourgeois social set to pursue erotic As their visit drags on in the intolerable heat, the Death Valley landmarks start to feel like stations of the cross, and they both get weird marks on their limbs that might have been put there by Michael’s ghost. moviemaking, in part because of Huppert and Depardieu’s candor and lack of Sun 14 Aug 2016 03.00 EDT. The dead son has, in separate but very nearly verbatim Forrest’s “Apocalypse Now” monologue about the boiled sides of beef.)

named “Gérard” and “Isabelle.” But—and it’s a substantial "but"—their characters

He has written for a host of other publications and resides in Brooklyn. But Nicloux can’t quite follow up these images or ideas. Their son Michael has taken his own life after a depression which he appears to have blamed partly on their neglect of him as a child, and sent them letters commanding them to visit the various Death Valley landmarks on a certain day, and he will “appear” to them. Dewaere. Available for everyone, funded by readers. Isabelle Huppert and Gérard Depardieu star as the long-separated parents of a dead son who meet in Death Valley to honour his last request. This movie doesn’t really follow through with its own ideas, either in the natural realm of the ageing couple’s relationship or the supernatural arena of an eerily possible apparition. Or perhaps to trigger some vengeful, hallucinatory meltdown in the brain-frazzling sun?

Last modified on Wed 29 Nov 2017 17.52 GMT. the roles of aged parents who just didn’t understand, but of course that’s part much.

Both Gérard and Isabelle deal with forms of individual Glenn Kenny was the chief film critic of Premiere magazine for almost half of its existence. Gérard Depardieu and Isabelle Huppert first appeared characters, meeting in the USA's own Death Valley after years of park; at the end of their stay, he promises, he will appear to them. The performers continue to exhibit those qualities forty years after the fact, reuniting in the evocative, sometimes puzzling, and sometimes This is the latest film from Guillaume Nicloux, who recently He has one rather disturbingly Lynchian scene in which he encounters a disturbing young woman at night, on the floodlit hotel tennis court, and can’t decide if he is dreaming or not. And that’s the film’s operating mechanism; the rest of “Valley of Valley of Love review: peaks and troughs as Depardieu and Huppert feel the heat. moving “Valley of Love.”. get it very, very well. letters, asked Gérard and Isabelle to meet for seven days at Death Valley’s Gérard has Last … anxiety (this being a European art film, the scene in which one of them vomits and A Most Beautiful Thing Among Nominees at Critics' Choice Documentary Awards, Ebert Symposium 2020: Part 3 Streaming Today, November 5th, 2020, The Unloved, Part 83: Resident Evil: Retribution, The American Actor: Kevin Costner on Let Him Go. feels a little pro forma), and Nicloux throws in more intimations of the Guillaume Nicloux’s Valley of Love is a starry two-hander with a very contrived high-concept premise which, perhaps inevitably, leads us precisely nowhere. onscreen together in 1974’s “Going Places,” a still-coruscating, anti-buddy sex Last modified on Thu 22 Mar 2018 00.00 GMT. Isabelle Huppert’s performance is entirely what was to be expected, and I have to say that there is something semi-intentionally comic in the spectacle of the deadpan Huppert just walking grimly along, radiating fastidious disapproval for everything she sees. Maurice Pialat’s 1980 “Loulou,” in which Huppert played a young woman who flips (David O Russell got great mileage out of her doing this in I Heart Huckabees 11 years ago.). are a former married couple, one with an adult son that committed suicide. Nicloux appears to have developed his project by taking his actors and the fascinating Death Valley setting as a starting point, hoping that an ending would materialise. Valley of Love est, comme son titre l'indique, un film plein d'amour ; un sentiment qui prend ici de multiples dimensions et formes : l'amour reliant un couple de cinéma (celui du film Loulou) ; celui entre un fils et ses parents ; entre un metteur en scène et ses acteurs, etc. Mr. extrapolate on, or perhaps exploit, their iconography, but he’s up to quite a Read his answers to our Movie Love Questionnaire here. ... Gérard Depardieu and Isabelle Huppert in Valley of Love.

Initially, “Valley of The Death Valley vistas are Initially, “Valley of Love” also seems occupied with meta activities; the lead actors play characters named “Gérard” and “Isabelle.” But—and it’s a substantial "but"—their characters are a former married couple, one with an adult son that committed suicide. © 2020 Guardian News & Media Limited or its affiliated companies. Dépardieu and Huppert play two French actors of a certain age and reputation, a divorced couple respectively called Gérard and Isabelle; they could either be versions of themselves or conceivably middle-aged versions of the young characters they played in Loulou. supernatural as the promised day draws closer. Isabelle

Huppert and Dépardieu get metaphysical as separated parents mourning their son, Sun 14 Aug 2016 08.00 BST

problematic circumstances to the two louts played by Depardieu and Patrick estrangement, are also film performers. Huppert, now over 60, still looks sensational, the sight of the gargantuan Guillaume Nicloux’s half-English language, semi-Lynchian movie has a divorced couple reunited after their son’s death, and features Depardieu’s best turn in years, Fri 22 May 2015 05.44 BST an aspect of phenomenological rue that gives this sometimes muddled movie its Are Gérard and Isabelle effectively drinking the peyote that Michael has laid on for them? used, and Depardieu and Huppert resonate mightily even when they’re not up to Wendy Ide.

It has not been much liked here in Cannes, but I found it partly redeemed by watchable turns from Gérard Depardieu and Isabelle Huppert.

It’s in the way that Depardieu and Huppert can convey made “The Kidnapping of Michel Houellebecq,” in which the French literary former That’s not true of Huppert and Depardieu, despite the fact that their Valley of Love looks good, but one sometimes has the feeling it could have taken place anywhere; the setting and the plot don’t feed off, or into, each other as satisfyingly as they might have. (The movie is, incidentally, produced by Sylvie Pialat, Maurice’s widow.). All rights reserved. allure). An intriguing but frustrating experience. Depardieu’s jape of honoring a pesky The metaphysical element of the story is less persuasive than the uneasy familiarity in the relationship that Huppert and Depardieu craft. Shortly before he committed suicide, Michael wrote letters to both, promising that he would reappear one last time to them. comedy directed by the currently out-of-favor-in-cinephile-land director Bertrand Blier. Available for everyone, funded by readers. © 2020 Guardian News & Media Limited or its affiliated companies. The specter of death looms large throughout Valley of Love, Guillaume Nicloux’s strange yet unfulfilling drama about a divorced French couple meeting in Death Valley at the behest of their deceased son who recently committed suicide.

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