Strand nabs Gerard Depardieu, Isabelle Huppert’s “Valley of Love”November 5, 2015 - 11:22 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Strand Releasing has acquired U.S. rights to Guillaume Nicloux’s drama “Valley of Love,” which competed at Cannes, Variety reports. Pic toplines French icons Gerard Depardieu and Isabelle Huppert playing two movie stars and estranged lovers who reunite in Death Valley, Calif., after receiving a mysterious letter from their dead son. As their son promises that he’ll appear to them in one of the five sites of the Valley, the pair embarks on a spiritual journey across the desert which brings them closer to one another. “I was impressed by ‘Valley of Love’ and the performances by Depardieu and Huppert are extremely moving,” said Strand Releasing’s Marcus Hu. Strand Releasing plans to screen the film at various key festivals in the U.S. prior to its theatrical release, which the company expects to be in the spring. “Valley of Love” is produced by Sylvie Pialat’s les Films du Worso and Jean-Baptiste Dupont and Cyril Colbeau-Justin’s LGM. The deal was done between Jon Gerrans, Strand Releasing’s co-founder and Camille Neel, head of international sales at Le Pacte. Photo: Cannes Film Festival Top stories Paris Center Pompidou Musée National d’Art Moderne will host the screening of Sergei Parajanov’s "Triptych" on December 15. The creative crew of the Public TV had chosen 13-year-old Malena as a participant of this year's contest. She called on others to also suspend their accounts over the companies’ failure to tackle hate speech. Penderecki was known for his film scores, including for William Friedkin’s “The Exorcist”, Stanley Kubrick’s “The Shining”. Partner news | Armenia to participate in key EU meeting for the first time ever National Assembly speaker Alen Simonyan has said that Armenia will for the first time participate in the Conference. U.S. reacts to Russia’s criticism of upcoming Armenia-EU-U.S. meeting Matthew Miller has weighed in on Russia’s criticism of an upcoming Armenia-EU-U.S. meeting. Lavrov sees ‘collapse’ of Russia’s ties with Armenia Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has underscored heightened tensions between Russia and Armenia. Russia clarifying reports on Baku’s alleged arms supply to Ukraine Russia says is carefully working to verify reports about alleged arms supplies from Azerbaijan to Ukraine |