Valley of Love
Strand Releasing | Release Date: March 25, 2016 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
59
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 13 Critic Reviews
Positive:
7
Mixed:
5
Negative:
1
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
88
Slant MagazineDiego SemereneMar 21, 2016
The film enables us to feel the emotional weight of a posthumous letter precisely because we can only imagine its contents. Read full review
80
CineVueAllie GemmillAug 11, 2016
It's a little messy, like life, but it's also beautiful to experience. Read full review
80
Los Angeles TimesKatie WalshMar 24, 2016
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. Read full review
70
Screen DailyAllan HunterMar 24, 2016
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. Read full review
70
The New York TimesManohla DargisMar 24, 2016
This movie is finally only about Isabelle Huppert and Gérard Depardieu, and that’s enough. Read full review
67
The A.V. ClubMike D'AngeloMar 23, 2016
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. Read full review
63
RogerEbert.comGlenn KennyMar 25, 2016
The performers continue to exhibit those qualities forty years after the fact, reuniting in the evocative, sometimes puzzling, and sometimes moving Valley of Love. Read full review
60
Time Out LondonCath ClarkeAug 8, 2016
The fish-out-of water moments are great fun, watching arthouse gods Depardieu and Huppert in tacky tourist hell. Read full review
60
The Hollywood ReporterJon FroschMar 24, 2016
A flawed but affecting two-hander that intrigues and frustrates in nearly equal measure. Read full review
60
VarietyGuy LodgeMar 24, 2016
There are gentle rewards to be gained from the initially brittle, gradually tender rapport between two actors of contrasting greatness. Read full review
42
The PlaylistOliver LytteltonMar 24, 2016
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. Read full review
40
The GuardianPeter BradshawMar 24, 2016
This movie doesn’t really follow through with its own ideas, either in the natural realm of the ageing couple’s relationship or the supernatural arena of an eerily possible apparition. Read full review
30
Village VoiceMelissa AndersonMar 22, 2016
Isabelle and Gérard's regrets and laments about their parenting skills betray no bone-deep rue or shame but are delivered with all the conviction of two luminaries merely running their lines. Read full review
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