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  Review by Marc ★★★½ 5

  Before the screening, Amalric said "Don't try to understand everything. Don't be too German." to a room full of Germans.

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  Review by Dave G ★★★★½ 2

  A melancholic journey through grief, loss, and denial. I knew where it was going, and it doesn't really hide it at all, but that didn't make it hit any less. Vicky Krieps is phenomenal. I'm just a wreck now.

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  Review by Adam Solomons ★★★★½

  We didn’t necessarily need proof Krieps can carry an entire movie on her shoulders, but this is that.

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  Review by lady bird ★★★★★

  « Il faut tout faire toute seule »

  Je pense qu’il est impossible d’expliquer ce que j’ai ressenti durant les deux visionnages de ce film bien que je pense que le second est encore plus fort que le premier.
  J’ai rarement été autant bouleversée par un film de toute ma vie. Mathieu Amalric prouve encore une fois son génie à travers ce film tout bonnement parfait qui nous prend aux tripes dès les premières notes de piano.
  Le travail qu’il a fait avec Vicky Krieps sur ce film est hallucinant et je pense sincèrement qu’elle est tombée des cieux pour nous donner des performances comme ça.
  À voir absolument (au moins deux fois - au max deux fois sinon on en meurt je pense).
  Juste merci le cinéma de me déglinguer la gueule

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  Review by MUBI

  Vicky Krieps is luminous as a woman under the influence in this mysterious family drama from the French multihyphenate Mathieu Amalric. Told in puzzle-piece fragments, the film has the beautiful fragility of broken glass and feels, contrary to the title, as though it would be hazardous to touch.

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  Review by jrhovind ★★★★

  “You should come up with a story we can tell.” “That’s what I’m doing, honey.” Amalric channels something of the spirit of early Resnais – indeed, the film largely plays out in a way reminiscent of those singularly spellbinding and heartbroken rhythms of Je t’aime Je t’aime – to capture one woman’s shattered feeling of loss. Trying out so many shards of so many different possible variations of her mourning; all these different ways in which leaving her husband and children might have happened, various ways in which she might not have had to hurt so much. “I’m not the one who left. I made it up. That way, you’re here.” Among the most elegantly edited films of recent memory,…

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  Review by Jaime Rebanal 🇵🇸 ★★★★ 2

  Entered this one completely blind, then I came out of a very complicated and very beautiful portrait of what it feels like to be missing your family, before the movie pulls the rug from under our feet. By the time that happens, suddenly everything that we were seeing prior becomes more depressing to look at, because of how much it seems to signify a sense of happiness to be felt within what could have been. It's the way that a film like this jolts back to reality that only makes those tidbits feel even more meaningful, and then you have Vicky Krieps delivering one of her most emotionally complex performances - one that hides the look of pain but feels it.

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  Review by Diegoberto ★★★★

  'Hold Me Tight' is like a puzzle that's very satisfying to solve. At first, the plot seems to be about a mother abandoning her family, but the revelation in the third act gives a whole new meaning to what we just saw. Vicky Krieps gives another fine performance as a broken woman in search of solace. It is not until the final moments that we finally get what's going on with her. This a tale about grief and how this feeling tears us apart — the reconciliation with life and the what-ifs. Mathieu Amalric delivers a challenging exercise — through a collection of flashbacks, multiple timelines, and fantasies — to everyone willing to feel instead of trying to understand.

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  Review by shookone ★★½

  two options where the story could go and you're too busy with finding out which of the pathways will be the right one. more accurate arthouse cinema for the endless realms of the delicate french cuisine.

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  Review by Marya E. Gates ★★★★

  another knockout performance from Vicky Krieps

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  Review by Paul Elliott ★★★

  Multiple timelines and surroundings dissolve into one another in this French drama Hold Me Tight, which very purposefully develops an ambivalence about what is real and imaginary. With cuts that lean heavily on sound, both overlaid and oozing from one scene to the next, it stars Vicky Krieps as Clarisse, a woman who has seemingly abandoned her husband and children. Some neat cinematic tricks heighten the movie from the director and writer Mathieu Amalric - best known for having played Dominic Greene, the main villain in Quantum of Solace.

  Amalric presents the film with the brushstrokes of a family tragedy and a prevailing depressive spirit that bleeds from nearly every frame. It tells of the pain of letting go and…

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  Review by katarina

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  i’m sleepy but this is a total banger. vicky if you’re reading this i’m the girl who pushed past you to get to the lincoln center bathrooms i promise i really enjoyed the film i just drank like 6 lattes today