La Vallee
by Barbet Schroeder
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Actor: J?r?me Beauvarlet, Jean-Pierre Kalfon, Michael Gothard, Monique Giraudy, Val?rie LagrangeDirector: Barbet Schroeder
Brand: Image Entertainment
Cinematographer: N?stor Almendros
Writer: Barbet Schroeder
Editor: Denise de Casabianca
Producer: Mike E. Kaplan
Writer: Paul G?gauff
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; English (Subtitled); English (Dubbed)
Format: Anamorphic, Color, Dubbed, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 106 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2003-02-25
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Homevision
Movie Reviews of La Vallee
Movie Review: This film is obscured by clouds...
Summary: 2 Stars
Thinking back to my initial viewing of La Vallee back in 2004, I was taken by its charm and adventurous journey of discovery. Having seen it again this year, I'm much more critical of its faults.
First of all, the pace is excruciatingly slow. Rather simple scenes drag on forever. A lot of brushing up and editing could have been done to make things move at a more even pace. Secondly, there's a lot of plot points and scenes that don't really make much internal sense. Young, rich, beautiful socialite Viviane decides to just leave her comfortable life and husband because some dorky early 70's hippie is cute and happens to be on a quest? Come on. There's also a drawn-out "Huh?" moment when Viviane's rented plane takes off...does a slow bank back around to the runway...and lands again. Hey Viviane, why not just change your mind before you got on it 3 minutes earlier? There's also a completely unnecessary slaughter scene of three pigs. I'm not particularly squeemish, but it seemed a bit over the top. There's also an abundance of nudity and sex; just like most late 60's/early 70's films, it's none too subtle with the "Hey look! Nudity!" approach.
Pink Floyd's score work is used sparingly, and never longer than a minute at a time. The album soundtrack is a lot better than the film.
Overall...I like the film's imagery and the themes in the story (loss of innocence, enlightenment, society and laws, the inner journey), but the film is simply too weighted down in 1972 to stand out today. If you saw it on its original run in the 70's and have a soft spot for Floyd and nostalgia, add an extra star to my review.
Summary of La Vallee
Studio: Image Entertainment Release Date: 02/25/2003 Run time: 105 minutesWhile The Godfather was making moviegoers an offer they couldn't refuse, La Vall?e was wowing art-house crowds with its flower-powered search for paradise in the jungles of New Guinea. It's there that an adventurous diplomat's wife (Bulle Ogier), hoping to find the forbidden feathers of a rare exotic bird, embarks on a deeper, more personal quest when she encounters a makeshift family of hippies seeking an unmapped valley from which visitors are said never to return. Like the structurally similar cult films from its era (including Walkabout and Aguirre: The Wrath of God), La Vall?e dazzled the post-'60s subculture with free-spirited adventure and enigmatic beauty, captured here through the peerless lens of cinematographer N?stor Almendros. The hippie vibe seems mildly dated but its sensual context is timeless, and a climactic encounter with the primitive Mapuga tribe retains an intense cross-cultural mystique. Pink Floyd's celebrated soundtrack is mostly heard as background ambience, but it effectively enhances the film's compelling atmosphere of mystery and expectation. --Jeff Shannon
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