VALLEY OF LOVE (15)

WHO’S IN IT?

Isabelle Huppert (Amour), Gérard Depardieu (Life of Pi), Dan Warner (Freedom Writers), Aurélia Thiérrée (Goya’s Ghosts), Dionne Houle (Cake: A Wedding Story)

WHO’S BEHIND THE CAMERA?

Guillaume Nicloux (The Key), director, writer; David H. Pickering (Late Bloomers), writer; Cyril Colbeau-Justin (His Mother’s Eyes), Jean-Baptiste Dupont (Disco), Sylvie Pialat (Stranger by the Lake) and Benoît Quainon (The Nun), producers; Christophe Offenstein (Tell No One), cinematographer; Guy Lecorne (White Material), editor

WHAT’S IT ABOUT?

An estranged couple (Huppert and Depardieu) are reunited when they are called to Death Valley, California after receiving a letter from their grown son Michael (Warner), who had committed suicide six months earlier…

IN ONE SENTENCE, WHY SHOULD YOU BE EXCITED?

Two esteemed French actors, Isabelle Huppert and Gérard Depardieu, act off one another in this bittersweet romantic drama about life and love once thought to be lost.

WHEN’S IT OUT?

FRIDAY 12TH AUGUST 2016

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