The Valley

1972 "Obscured by clouds"

The Valley

6.4 | 1h45m | en | Drama

Viviane, a French Consul's wife, is in New Guinea to find exotic feathers for export to Paris. She encounters four European travelers who are en route to "La Vallée": The Valley, high in the Guinean mountains, is shown on maps as 'obscured by clouds' and is beyond their previous experiences. Viviane joins their trek to find rare feathers and soon becomes entwined in their journey. Their extended stay with the Mapuga tribe brings a denouement between western and indigenous values before their final quest toward the 'Valley of the Gods'.

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6.4 | 1h45m | en | Drama | More Info

Released: July. 11,1972 | Released Producted By: Les Films du Losange , SNC Country: France Budget: 0 Revenue: 0 Official Website:

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Cast

Bulle Ogier , Michael Gothard , Jean-Pierre Kalfon

Director

Emmanuel Machuel

Producted By

Les Films du Losange , SNC

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Bulle Ogier

as Vivian

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Michael Gothard

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Jean-Pierre Kalfon

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Reviews

Seamus2829 This film is little more than a 105 minute sleeping pill disguised as a psychedelic travelogue (of sorts). The plot (plot,you mean there is actually a plot?)concerns a fashion designer searching for bird feathers, when she happens upon a rag tag group of hippies looking for the valley obscured by clouds. Foolishly, she opts to follow along with them. The bulk of the remainder of the film is taken up by her ingesting copious amounts of drugs,having boring,pointless sex,more drugs,more pointless sex, oh yeah, and seeing some rather pretty scenery (filmed in New Guinea). Honestly,this film was so boring, I actually fell asleep until the end credits. Even Pink Floyd's majestic music doesn't make this exercise in cinematic narcolepsy any easier to swallow. Just buy the soundtrack CD by Pink Floyd, instead (you'll thank yourself). P.S. Barbet Schroeder,who directed this mess would do the film a big favor a few years later with the much better 'Barfly')

tim-297 This is a very interesting, but (unfortunately) underrated, film from the hippie era of the late 60's-early 70's that would make a great addition to any collector of this genre of film. Along with Schroeder's "More", Max Steuer's "The Committee", Roy Battersby's "The Body", Antonioni's "Zabriskie Point", and George Greenough's surfing documentary "Crystal Voyager", any fan of the music of early Pink Floyd should add this to their collection -- if they can find a copy. Unfortunately it is out of print...again. All 6 of these films *should* be released on DVD. Let's hope the distributors will realize the market potential.

matlock-6 Summed up, this is a pretty boring film. Although the acting isn't horrible, overall it has that awful feel of many late 1960's early 1970's films. The beginning is straightforward enough, but soon it spirals into a huge mess of stream-of-consciousness plots and hippie nonsense. Probably the only person who would be interested in this would be a Pink Floyd fan, and that for the wonderful Pink Floyd soundtrack.

Phantom Moonhead I would bet that most of the people who seek out this film are either Schroeder compilists or Pink Floyd fans. The film follows the odyssey of a bored rich girl who goes looking for rare feathers in a "Mystical" jungle that is covered in clouds. The full title is "The Valley Obscured By Clouds" and the soundtrack(Obscured By Clouds)was Pink Floyd's last soundtrack right before they made "Dark Side of The Moon".The film contains some generous sex scenes,some nudity and a Pig slaughtering scene that might not appeal to timid viewers but it does have a neat soundtrack and some different versions of Floyd songs can be heard here,if only in snippets. Although it gets a good rating,Schroeder and Floyd fans might be better off with "More" another Schroeder film with a more complete soundtrack.