The Enclosed Valley

Overview

My films are like that: in a room, but looking out onto an open sky. [...] I can’t really say it except to repeat that Bresson note, ‘that without a thing changing, everything is different.’ The film exists. The fiction is set up, and we believe in it. The justness of the agreement leads us to believe it, because everything plays equally at being a sign. That’s the arrangement of the elements. It’s an act of faith. La vallée close is just this: elements treated above all as if in a documentary that, without being changed, portray the story and reveal between them the elements of fiction. But above all seen as they are, insignificant. And then in the relations they set up, they can satisfy our desire for a story. -- Rousseau

Details

Status

Released

Release date

January 1, 1995

Original language

French

Spoken languages

French

Countries

France

Director

Jean-Claude Rousseau

Producer

Jean-Claude Rousseau

Cinematography

Jean-Claude Rousseau

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

IMDb

tt0257251