From experimental cinema (The Flying Children, Punctured Life) to his triptych of noir films (A Private Affair, Hanging Offense, The Key), from unconventional comedy (The Octopus, Holiday) to political film (The Gordji Affair), through to drama (Happiness Is No Joke, La Reine des Connes), Guillaume Nicloux’s work is dense and highly personal. La Religieuse and L’Enlèvement de Michel Houellebecq, presented at the
last Berlinale Film Festival, is no exception. Valley of Love, shot in the USA, starring Gérard Depardieu and Isabelle Huppert, is his 15th film. Guillaume Nicloux is also a novelist and he has been teaching at Femis for
ten years.