Synopsis
A story of two famous actors who used to be a couple. They reunite after the son's death and receive a letter asking them to visit five places at Death Valley, which will make the son reappear.
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Cast
- Gérard DepardieuGérard
- Isabelle HuppertIsabelle
- Dan WarnerPaul
- Dionne HouleLa vieille dame
- Aurélia ThiérréeFemme couple
- Derek NewmanBar patron
Recommendations
- 88
Slant Magazine
The film enables us to feel the emotional weight of a posthumous letter precisely because we can only imagine its contents. - 80
Los Angeles Times
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. - 70
The New York Times
This movie is finally only about Isabelle Huppert and Gérard Depardieu, and that’s enough. - 70
Screen Daily
The affectionate rapport between the actors and their characters is evident in every scene and manages to transport the wary viewer through an odd but not unappealing mixture of mystical road movie and family psychodrama. - 67
The A.V. Club
Valley Of Love is at its best when it wanders away from its ostensible premise and just lets two old pros connect, riffing lightly on our knowledge of their real-life histories. - 60
The Hollywood Reporter
A flawed but affecting two-hander that intrigues and frustrates in nearly equal measure. - 60
Variety
There are gentle rewards to be gained from the initially brittle, gradually tender rapport between two actors of contrasting greatness. - 42
The Playlist
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.
