The Enclosed Valley

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The Enclosed Valley (1995)

Directed by Jean-Claude Rousseau

Documentary · 2h 24m

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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Crew

Director
Jean-Claude Rousseau
Director of Photography
Jean-Claude Rousseau
Producer
Jean-Claude Rousseau

Details

Original title
La Vallée close
Release date
1995-01-01
Runtime
2h 24m
Genres
Documentary
Original language
FR
Spoken languages
French
Countries
France