Valley of Love

Valley of Love is a 2015 French film directed by Guillaume Nicloux, starring Gérard Depardieu and Isabelle Huppert.

Each has received a letter from their son Michaël, who killed himself in San Francisco six months earlier, asking them to visit certain spots in Death Valley on certain days, when he will reappear to them.

Out together in the desert, Gérard walks on alone and returns to Isabelle in panic, convinced that he met Michaël, who seized his wrists.

The film ends there, leaving viewers to ponder what meaning the couple will draw from their experience and whether it may bring them closer again.

Huppert and Depardieu had last worked together on film more than 30 years earlier in 1980, approximately the same amount of time their characters in this movie had been separated.