Sharing the screen again for the first time in 35 years two of French cinema’s greatest names come together in a tale of love, loss, memory and the mystical.

Isabelle Huppert and Gérard Depardieu play a former couple who reunite in the USA’s Death Valley following a mysterious summons from their long-dead son. The couple’s past and their unresolved feelings play out in hotel rooms, restaurants and among the desert perspectives of Nevada, as they move towards a mysterious epiphany.

Orchestrated by Guillaume Nicloux, the versatile director behind The Nun and The Kidnapping of Michel Houellebecq, this superb two-hander is touching, playful and tender, as the two stars, partly playing versions of themselves, find a new chemistry together, musing on the past, the present and their own personal changes. Visually beautiful and deeply resonant, Valley of Love is a minor-key duet played by major virtuosos.

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