Hold Me Tight Review: Mathieu Amalric's Restless Portrait of a Woman Grieving
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The narrative action of Mathieu Amalric’s latest directorial feature, Hold Me Tight, adapted from a play which was never staged, takes place in a kind of suspended timeline. One day Clarisse (Vicky Krieps) wakes up, gets dressed, and goes for a drive. In voiceover we hear that she has left her two children and husband
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The Dead Don't Hurt Trailer: Viggo Mortensen's Vicky Krieps-Led Western Opens This May
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Bergman Island Trailer: Mia Hansen-Løve Takes Tim Roth and Vicky Krieps on a Trip in Cannes Premiere
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Gabrielle Marceau - The Film Stage
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Mathieu Amalric - The Film Stage
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The Dead Don't Hurt Trailer: Viggo Mortensen's Vicky Krieps-Led Western Opens This May
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The Dead Don't Hurt Trailer: Viggo Mortensen's Vicky Krieps-Led Western Opens This May
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Gabrielle Marceau - The Film Stage
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The Dead Don't Hurt Trailer: Viggo Mortensen's Vicky Krieps-Led Western Opens This May
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Kiyoshi Kurosawa's Serpent's Path Remake Gets New Images and First Synopsis; Mathieu Amalric Confirmed to Star
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Vicky Krieps is on the Run in U.S. Trailer for Mathieu Amalric's Hold Me Tight
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The Dead Don't Hurt Trailer: Viggo Mortensen's Vicky Krieps-Led Western Opens This May
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Vicky Krieps on the Scientific Expedition of Acting, Imagined Worlds, and Hold Me Tight