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. Read more …
Gérard Dépardieu and Isabelle Huppert head up an idiosyncratic comedy which makes the most of its star power.
While it offers incidental pleasures and insights, it doesn’t have the emotional force of something like 45 Years, to which it bears a passing resemblance.
Huppert and Dépardieu get metaphysical as separated parents mourning their son.
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