The Valley (Obscured by Clouds) (La Vallée) (1972)

“I think I had the soundtrack for this movie for already 20 years, so I was definitely eager to check the damned thing after all this time. Well, to be”

“I think I had the soundtrack for this movie for already 20 years, so I was definitely eager to check the damned thing after all this time. Well, to be”

An average movie

“I think I had the soundtrack for this movie for already 20 years, so I was definitely eager to check the damned thing after all this time. Well, to be honest, it wasn't really good, I'm afraid. I mean, it is not that it was really bad, it was more that half of it was really neat and interesting but, unfortunately, the other half was pure garbage. Take for example the very first shot. Indeed, you get the first look of New Guinea, a great areal shot, with the great music of Pink Floyd but then they had to add some rather lame voice-over. Eventually, the whole thing was some kind of discovery of New Guinea by some hippy group which wasn't a bad idea but their biggest mistake was to add this uptight upper-class woman obessing about some feathers. I mean, Bulle Ogier did look lovely but her cha” read more

Watched in 2016 (247 movies items)

"15.7. Hipit lähtevät viidakkoon etsimään snobille linnunhöyheniä. BD-tasoisena luontokuvat ovat aivan törkeän upeita ja niitä tapittaa silmät pyöreänä. Harmi vain, että elokuvan dialogi ja älyllinen sisältö on huonolla tavalla pohdiskeltua pajarifilosofiaa."