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
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Jean-Claude Rousseau Director
First release January 1, 1995 · Produced in France · Original title La Vallée close
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Original title
La Vallée close
Original language
French
Spoken on screen
French
Release dates
France · January 1, 1995
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No release date listed for United States.
Austria
October 31, 2016 · Premiere · Vienna International Film Festival
France
November 1, 1999 · Premiere · Festival de Belfort
September 13, 2000 · Theatrical
Italy
August 29, 2001 · Premiere · Venice International Film Festival
Portugal
October 13, 2000 · Premiere · Festa do Cinema Francês
Vietnam
September 20, 2018 · Premiere · Hanoi DocLab
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