To say this is a strange and interesting film doesn't begin to describe the Opening Night and Paris Premiere of "Valley of Love" by Guillaume Nicloux, which had its World Premier in competition at Cannes last month.
Starring two of Europe's most famous actors (Isabelle Hupert and Gérard Dépardieu) who play two lost souls on a mystical mission in one of the most barren, frightening and glorious places on earth - Death Valley.
Speaking in French, Isabelle and Gérard, lovers and parents in their youth but now separated for many years and really not knowing each other anymore, just lost their adult son Michael, a gay man.
However, 6 months after his death, they each receive a strange and compelling letter from him in which he beckons each of them to come together for a reunion, a meeting with him in Death Valley, in various places on succeeding days.
Despite the absurdity of the situation, the now much older mother and father each decide to go there and wait for Michael.
The film then, in glorious locales, becomes a dialogue between two strangers about their lives, their former connection, and about a son whom both barely knew.
The two actors are fascinating. Dépardieu seems particularly lost and even speaks about his vast girth (He Is fat!!!) which seems symbolic of his wasted life and he doesn't hesitate here to show it off.
Hupert, whenever she is on screen, takes over and rages with amazing skill about her anger, disappointment and loss of the son she mourns but hardly knew.
The film is a compelling, interesting discourse on life's disappointments set in a vast mysterious location. The spiritual upheaval both characters experience at the end throws their confused, lost lives further into question in ways they never expected.
Credits
Guillaume Nicloux - director
Guillaume Nicloux - screenplay
Sylvie Pialat - producer
International rights are being handled by Le Pacte, U.S. Rights are still available.
Abut the Director
From experimental cinema ("The Flying Children," "Punctured Life") to his triptych of noir films (A Private Affair, Hanging Offense, The Key ), from unconventional comedy (The Octopus, Holiday) to political film ("The Gordji Affair"), through to drama ("Happiness Is No Joke," "La Reine des Connes"), Guillaume Nicloux’s work is dense and highly personal. "La Religieuse" and "L’Enlèvement" de Michel Houellebecq, presented at the last Berlinale Film Festival, is no exception. "Valley of Love," shot in the USA, starring Gérard Depardieu and Isabelle Huppert, is his 15th film. Guillaume Nicloux is also a novelist and he has been teaching at Femis for ten years.
Starring two of Europe's most famous actors (Isabelle Hupert and Gérard Dépardieu) who play two lost souls on a mystical mission in one of the most barren, frightening and glorious places on earth - Death Valley.
Speaking in French, Isabelle and Gérard, lovers and parents in their youth but now separated for many years and really not knowing each other anymore, just lost their adult son Michael, a gay man.
However, 6 months after his death, they each receive a strange and compelling letter from him in which he beckons each of them to come together for a reunion, a meeting with him in Death Valley, in various places on succeeding days.
Despite the absurdity of the situation, the now much older mother and father each decide to go there and wait for Michael.
The film then, in glorious locales, becomes a dialogue between two strangers about their lives, their former connection, and about a son whom both barely knew.
The two actors are fascinating. Dépardieu seems particularly lost and even speaks about his vast girth (He Is fat!!!) which seems symbolic of his wasted life and he doesn't hesitate here to show it off.
Hupert, whenever she is on screen, takes over and rages with amazing skill about her anger, disappointment and loss of the son she mourns but hardly knew.
The film is a compelling, interesting discourse on life's disappointments set in a vast mysterious location. The spiritual upheaval both characters experience at the end throws their confused, lost lives further into question in ways they never expected.
Credits
Guillaume Nicloux - director
Guillaume Nicloux - screenplay
Sylvie Pialat - producer
International rights are being handled by Le Pacte, U.S. Rights are still available.
Abut the Director
From experimental cinema ("The Flying Children," "Punctured Life") to his triptych of noir films (A Private Affair, Hanging Offense, The Key ), from unconventional comedy (The Octopus, Holiday) to political film ("The Gordji Affair"), through to drama ("Happiness Is No Joke," "La Reine des Connes"), Guillaume Nicloux’s work is dense and highly personal. "La Religieuse" and "L’Enlèvement" de Michel Houellebecq, presented at the last Berlinale Film Festival, is no exception. "Valley of Love," shot in the USA, starring Gérard Depardieu and Isabelle Huppert, is his 15th film. Guillaume Nicloux is also a novelist and he has been teaching at Femis for ten years.
- 6/15/2015
- by Peter Belsito
- Sydney's Buzz
Foreign film nominations for Biancanieves, Gravity and Great Beauty.Scroll down for full list of nominations
Guillaume Gallienne’s Me, Myself And Mum (Les Garçons Et Guillaume, A Table!) and Abdellatif Kechiche’s Adele: Chapters 1 & 2 (aka Blue is the Warmest Colour) are the hot favourites in France’s upcoming Cesar awards.
The Académie Des Arts et Technique du Cinéma unveiled the nominations for the César Awards at its traditional news conference at Le Fouquet’s restaurant on the Champs Elysées on Friday morning.
Actor Gallienne’s debut feature Me, Myself and Mum - a big screen adaptation of his autobiographical, one-man comedy show about his complicated relationship with his mother - secured 10 nominations.
They comprised best film, best first film, best director, best actor, best supporting actress, best adaptation, best editing, best sound, best set design and best costumes.
The film was produced and distributed by Gaumont, which also picked up another four nominations for The Young...
Guillaume Gallienne’s Me, Myself And Mum (Les Garçons Et Guillaume, A Table!) and Abdellatif Kechiche’s Adele: Chapters 1 & 2 (aka Blue is the Warmest Colour) are the hot favourites in France’s upcoming Cesar awards.
The Académie Des Arts et Technique du Cinéma unveiled the nominations for the César Awards at its traditional news conference at Le Fouquet’s restaurant on the Champs Elysées on Friday morning.
Actor Gallienne’s debut feature Me, Myself and Mum - a big screen adaptation of his autobiographical, one-man comedy show about his complicated relationship with his mother - secured 10 nominations.
They comprised best film, best first film, best director, best actor, best supporting actress, best adaptation, best editing, best sound, best set design and best costumes.
The film was produced and distributed by Gaumont, which also picked up another four nominations for The Young...
- 1/31/2014
- ScreenDaily
Adele and Me, Myself and Mum lead French Cesar nominations.Scroll down for full list of nominations
Abdellatif Kechiche’s Adele: Chapters 1 & 2 (aka Blue is the Warmest Colour) and Guillaume Gallienne’s Les Garçons Et Guillaume, A Table! (aka Me, Myself And Mum) are the hot favourites in France’s upcoming Cesar awards.
France’s Académie Des Arts et Technique du Cinéma unveiled the nominations for the César Awards at its traditional news conference at Le Fouquet’s restaurant on the Champs Elysées on Friday morning.
The 39th Cesar ceremony, presided by Intouchables star Francois Cluzet, will take place on February 28.
Nominations (so far)Best FILM9 Month-Stretch (Neuf mois ferme)Me, Myself and Mum (Les Garçons et Guillaume, à table!)Stranger by the Lake (L’inconnu du Lac)Jimmy P. (Jimmy P. Psychothérapie d’un Indien des Plaines)The Past (Le Passé)Venus in Fur (La Vénus à la Foururre)Adele: Chapters 1 & 2 (La Vie d’Adèle...
Abdellatif Kechiche’s Adele: Chapters 1 & 2 (aka Blue is the Warmest Colour) and Guillaume Gallienne’s Les Garçons Et Guillaume, A Table! (aka Me, Myself And Mum) are the hot favourites in France’s upcoming Cesar awards.
France’s Académie Des Arts et Technique du Cinéma unveiled the nominations for the César Awards at its traditional news conference at Le Fouquet’s restaurant on the Champs Elysées on Friday morning.
The 39th Cesar ceremony, presided by Intouchables star Francois Cluzet, will take place on February 28.
Nominations (so far)Best FILM9 Month-Stretch (Neuf mois ferme)Me, Myself and Mum (Les Garçons et Guillaume, à table!)Stranger by the Lake (L’inconnu du Lac)Jimmy P. (Jimmy P. Psychothérapie d’un Indien des Plaines)The Past (Le Passé)Venus in Fur (La Vénus à la Foururre)Adele: Chapters 1 & 2 (La Vie d’Adèle...
- 1/31/2014
- ScreenDaily
A list of the movies being shown in the official program at this year’s Berlin International Film Festival, which runs Feb. 7-17.
In competition:
Dolgaya schastlivaya zhizn (A Long and Happy Life), director Boris Khlebnikov.
Prince Avalanche, David Gordon Green.
Uroki Garmonii (Harmony Lessons), Emir Baigazin.
Vic+Flo ont vu un ours (Vic+Flo Saw a Bear), Denis Cote.
W imie … (In the Name of), Malgoska Szumowska.
Camille Claudel 1915, Bruno Dumont.
Elle s’en va (On my Way), Emmanuelle Bercot.
Epizoda u zivotu beraca zeljeza (An Episode in the Life of an Iron Picker), Danis Tanovic.
Gloria, Sebastian Lelio.
In competition:
Dolgaya schastlivaya zhizn (A Long and Happy Life), director Boris Khlebnikov.
Prince Avalanche, David Gordon Green.
Uroki Garmonii (Harmony Lessons), Emir Baigazin.
Vic+Flo ont vu un ours (Vic+Flo Saw a Bear), Denis Cote.
W imie … (In the Name of), Malgoska Szumowska.
Camille Claudel 1915, Bruno Dumont.
Elle s’en va (On my Way), Emmanuelle Bercot.
Epizoda u zivotu beraca zeljeza (An Episode in the Life of an Iron Picker), Danis Tanovic.
Gloria, Sebastian Lelio.
- 1/28/2013
- by Associated Press
- EW - Inside Movies
A list of the movies being shown in the official program at this year's Berlin International Film Festival, which runs Feb. 7-17.
In competition:
"Dolgaya schastlivaya zhizn" ("A Long and Happy Life"), director Boris Khlebnikov.
"Prince Avalanche," David Gordon Green.
"Uroki Garmonii" ("Harmony Lessons"), Emir Baigazin.
"Vic+Flo ont vu un ours" ("Vic+Flo Saw a Bear"), Denis Cote.
"W imie ..." ("In the Name of"), Malgoska Szumowska.
"Camille Claudel 1915," Bruno Dumont.
"Elle s'en va" ("On my Way"), Emmanuelle Bercot.
"Epizoda u zivotu beraca zeljeza" ("An Episode in the Life of an Iron
Picker"), Danis Tanovic.
"Gloria," Sebastian Lelio.
"Gold," Thomas Arslan.
"La Religieuse" ("The Nun"), Guillaume Nicloux.
"Layla Fourie," Pia Marais.
"The Necessary Death of Charlie Countryman," Fredrik Bond.
"Nugu-ui Ttal-do Anin Haewon" ("Nobody's Daughter Haewon"), Hong Sangsoo.
"Paradies: Hoffnung" ("Paradise: Hope"), Ulrich Seidl.
"Parde" ("Closed Curtain"), Jafar Panahi and Kambozia Partovi.
"Pozitia Copilului" ("Child's Pose"), Calin Peter Netzer.
"Promised Land,...
In competition:
"Dolgaya schastlivaya zhizn" ("A Long and Happy Life"), director Boris Khlebnikov.
"Prince Avalanche," David Gordon Green.
"Uroki Garmonii" ("Harmony Lessons"), Emir Baigazin.
"Vic+Flo ont vu un ours" ("Vic+Flo Saw a Bear"), Denis Cote.
"W imie ..." ("In the Name of"), Malgoska Szumowska.
"Camille Claudel 1915," Bruno Dumont.
"Elle s'en va" ("On my Way"), Emmanuelle Bercot.
"Epizoda u zivotu beraca zeljeza" ("An Episode in the Life of an Iron
Picker"), Danis Tanovic.
"Gloria," Sebastian Lelio.
"Gold," Thomas Arslan.
"La Religieuse" ("The Nun"), Guillaume Nicloux.
"Layla Fourie," Pia Marais.
"The Necessary Death of Charlie Countryman," Fredrik Bond.
"Nugu-ui Ttal-do Anin Haewon" ("Nobody's Daughter Haewon"), Hong Sangsoo.
"Paradies: Hoffnung" ("Paradise: Hope"), Ulrich Seidl.
"Parde" ("Closed Curtain"), Jafar Panahi and Kambozia Partovi.
"Pozitia Copilului" ("Child's Pose"), Calin Peter Netzer.
"Promised Land,...
- 1/28/2013
- by AP
- Huffington Post
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