``A Hold Me Tight'' Her melody, a nostalgia you don't know yet

“A Hold Me Tight” Synopsis

It's like a story about a woman who ran away from home.

Index

• rules of The Game
• Hyperrealism/Imitation of Life
• chase after memory

rules of The Game

Countless Polaroid photos were lined up upside down on the bed. Clarice (Vicky Krieps) flips through two photos at random. It's almost like a card The Game or tarot fortune-telling using memorable photos. Clarice reveals her frustration when she confirms that the two photos she flipped over had exactly the same composition. Start over. As many times as you like.

Mathieu Amalric's films have the feel of detective movies or detective The Game. In ``Wimbledon Stadium'' (2001), starring his then-partner Jeanne Balibar, he goes on a journey to find the true identity of a mysterious writer who passed away without publishing any work. Or like The Blue Bedroom (14), a mysterious crime drama that beautifully combines Claude Chabrol's suspense and Douglas Sirk's melodrama. Mathieu Amalric's films have a mysterious The Game like quality, as if he were sketching out a story in real time on a blank canvas.

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``A Hold Me Tight'' (21), whose official synopsis is kept secret except for the sentence ``It's like the story of a woman who ran away from home.'' , The Game is stronger than ever. Vicki Krieps' performance can be said to be a new career best. In this work, each gesture made by the heroine Clarice creates a story like a haphazard association The Game.

Clarice's lines sound like she's enjoying this The Game. Just as the heroine played by Vicki Krieps in `` On Bergman Island '' (21), which was released in the same year, was a filmmaker, the heroine of this work is also a person who creates a story. She decides where this movie goes. There is a symbolic line that shows this. Clarice tries to find out about her husband's whereabouts from her husband's coworkers. "What about Marc?" A colleague replies: "It's up to you. You decide and let me know."

Clarice's The Game/story is based on sadness. And in order to maintain her sanity in the face of all the sadness, she weaves stories. She closes her eyes and weaves a story. I sketch the story as if it could have happened, like a rough sketch. Shuffling past memories and remaking the future. To stay sane. Start over. As many times as you like.

Hyperrealism/Imitation of Life