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Synopsis: Isabelle and Gérard go to a strange appointment in Death Valley, California. They have not seen each other for years and are here to answer to an invitation from their son Michael, a photographer, which they received after his suicide, six months ago.
Genre: Drama
Director(s): Guillaume Nicloux
Production: LGM Cinéma
  1 win & 5 nominations.
 
IMDB:
5.9
Metacritic:
59
Rotten Tomatoes:
73%
UNRATED
Year:
2015
91 min
Website
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I'll shower and meet you at the bar.

I spoke to Claude earlier.

Did you reach anyone?

No.

What's your husband do again?

He's a lawyer.

A lawyer?

Must be a nice change.

A change from what?

Not you, just the relationship.

What relationship?

I don't understand.

People change partners,

but stay themselves.

Only the relationship changes.

How many drinks have you had?

I'm not drunk. Watch this.

If it wasn't for my gut...

It's stupid to think people change.

We're born and die

with the same basic parts.

No, I think we can become

completely different people.

That's an old wives' tale.

You've practiced that trick drunk.

You've known how to do it for years.

Am I capable of that?

Yes.

How about some BBQ?

There's a place next door.

I'm vegetarian.

No more meat at all?

What do you eat, veggies, grains?

- What about eggs?

- Look, go eat, I can stay by myself.

Let me introduce...

What's going on?

Where are you going?

- To bed.

- You're not gonna eat?

No, I'm not hungry.

Goodnight.

Last night I saw a documentary on Gould.

Ever see the chair he played on?

He was a musician?

Glenn Gould, the pianist, not the actor.

He played on an old folding chair.

He performed on it for years.

Was he broke?

He had Asperger's syndrome.

A form of autism.

So?

Nothing. That's it.

What's all this?

Nothing, just some stuff

I picked up at the store.

Throw it in back.

Get in.

It's our second day, any thoughts?

What?

About Michael.

What am I supposed to say?

I don't know.

If somethings on your mind,

spit it out for chrissakes.

Michael...

What?

Finish your thought.

What about Michael?

Did he have AIDS?

Did he have AIDS?

Where'd you get that idea?

I'm just asking if he had AIDS.

No.

He didn't have AIDS.

Where the hell did you get that idea?

I was just wondering,

because I don't get it.

What don't you get?

His suicide.

There's nothing to get.

He died without any explanation.

We have to live with that.

His letters. He knows we're here.

Sure, sweetheart.

- Your coffee.

- Thanks.

I think he'd been living like that

for years.

No table, no books, nothing.

Just clothes and a ratty old armchair.

Nothing.

Still, he liked nice things as a kid.

- I dunno what he liked.

- Did you visit him often?

Once or twice, just in passing.

I don't remember,

it was years ago.

He was single then.

My daughter's studying in Berlin.

We talk on Skype.

But I don't know much about her.

We don't know much

about our own kids.

They never tell us

about the big decisions.

Where'd you get that shirt?

Nounours must've bought it for me.

- Who's "Nounours"?

- My secretary.

You don't like it?

They're pineapples.

You think it's tacky, huh?

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Guillaume Nicloux

Guillaume Nicloux (born 3 August 1966) is a French novelist, director and actor. He is the founder of the theatre company La Troupe. He has written crime fiction and directed films for cinema and French television.He won the Best Screenplay Award at the 2014 Tribeca Film Festival for The Kidnapping of Michel Houellebecq, a comedic interpretation of a rumoured abduction of the writer Michel Houellebecq, starring Houellebecq as himself.His 2015 film Valley of Love was selected to compete for the Palme d'Or at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival. more…

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