Valley of Love (Guillaume Nicloux, 2015)

This brings together heavyweights of French cinema Gérard Depardieu and Isabelle Huppert as a separated couple who reunite after their son's suicide to follow mysterious clues he left behind about reappearing in Death Valley one last time. There is a rather self-indulgent meta level to their characters, since they're both actors called Gérard and Isabelle, and really the interest of the film depends on your indulgence of the alarmingly corpulent Depardieu and the spiky Huppert as they bicker and dissect their erstwhile relationship while trudging from desert site to desert site, complaining about the heat all the way. The introduction of a supernatural element promises some sense of purpose, but doesn't really bring any dividends.

5/10