Hold Me Tight
Theatrical release poster
FrenchSerre moi fort
Directed byMathieu Amalric
Written byMathieu Amalric
Based onJe reviens de loin
by Claudine Galéa
Produced by
  • Yaël Fogiel
  • Laetitia Gonzalez
  • Felix von Boehm
Starring
CinematographyChristophe Beaucarne
Edited byFrançois Gédigier
Release dates
  • 14 July 2021 (2021-07-14) (Cannes)
  • 8 September 2021 (2021-09-08) (France)
Running time
97 minutes[1][2][3]
LanguagesFrench, German
Box office$926,967[3][1]

Hold Me Tight (French: Serre moi fort) is a 2021 French drama film written and directed by Mathieu Amalric, based on the play Je reviens de loin by Claudine Galéa.[4] It stars Vicky Krieps as Clarisse, a woman who abandons her husband and children. The film premiered in the Official Selection at the 74th Cannes Film Festival on 14 July 2021.

Synopsis

Clarisse is a woman on the run from her family for reasons that aren't immediately clear. Gliding between reality and fiction, the film alternates between Clarisse's adventures on the road and scenes of her abandoned husband Marc as he struggles to care for his children at home.

Cast

  • Vicky Krieps as Clarisse
  • Arieh Worthalter as Marc, Clarisse's husband
  • Anne-Sophie Bowen-Chatet as Lucie, Clarisse and Marc's daughter
  • Sacha Ardilly as Paul, Clarisse and Marc's son

Production

According to director Mathieu Amalric, the film was shot in segments months apart in order to capture multiple seasons, ending in February 2020.[5]

Release

The film premiered in the Official Selection at the 74th Cannes Film Festival on 14 July 2021.[4] It had its official release in France on 8 September 2021.[3] It was released in the United States a year later on 9 September 2022,[2] and was released on VOD by Kino Lorber on November 22, 2022.[1]

Reception

Box office

Hold Me Tight grossed $74,723 in North America,[1] and $852,244 in other territories for a worldwide total of $926,967.[3]

Critical response

Hold Me Tight has received critical acclaim. On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 84% based on 45 reviews, with a weighted average of 7.3/10. The website's critical consensus reads, "Hold Me Tight trips over style while reaching for substance; fortunately, it has Vicky Krieps' stellar performance to keep it from falling down."[2] On Metacritic, the film holds an 82 out of 100 rating, based on 13 reviews, indicating "universal acclaim".[6]

Critic Michael O'Sullivan praised the film's depiction of grief in a 3 out of 4 star review for The Washington Post, describing it as a "strange and compelling film, a study of grief that somehow is at once moving and detached, in the way that people in mourning sometimes engage in denial-like displacement activities: behavior that's inappropriate to the emotion at hand."[7] In her 3.5 out of 4 star review for IndieWire, critic Susannah Gruder credited both Amalric's direction and Kriep's leading performance, saying "[Kriep's] wispy elegance is tempered by a clumsy charm as she lovingly strokes her daughter's hair, or floats through the world in her newly-solo life. Her general state of dazed detachment gives weight to one particularly explosive outburst of anger and pain toward the film's end, devastating in its cathartic confrontation with reality."[8]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Hold Me Tight (2021)". The Numbers. Nash Information Services, LLC. Retrieved 18 November 2022.
  2. 1 2 3 "Hold Me Tight". Rotten Tomatoes. Fandango Media. Retrieved 22 December 2022.
  3. 1 2 3 4 "Hold Me Tight (2021)". Box Office Mojo. IMDb. Retrieved 22 December 2022.
  4. 1 2 Malinjod, Eugénie (14 July 2021). "Mathieu Amalric explores mourning and memory in Serre moi fort (Hold Me Tight)". festival-cannes.com/en. Retrieved 22 December 2022.
  5. ↑ Tafoya, Scout (13 September 2022). "The Force of Hope: Mathieu Amalric on Hold Me Tight". rogerebert.com. Retrieved 9 October 2022.
  6. ↑ "Hold Me Tight Reviews". Metacritic. Fandom, Inc. Retrieved 9 October 2022.
  7. ↑ O'Sullivan, Michael (6 October 2022). "'Hold Me Tight' is a meditation on grief both haunting and detached". The Washington Post. Retrieved 9 October 2022.
  8. ↑ Gruder, Susannah (9 September 2022). "'Hold Me Tight' Review: Vicky Krieps Mesmerizes in Mathieu Amalric's Cryptic Story of Loss". Indiewire. Retrieved 9 October 2022.
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