HOLD ME TIGHT/SERRE MOI FORT (Matthieu Amalric 2021)

The celebrated actor has directed another interesting film, this one revolving around a family in the Pyrenees, a melodrama/puzzle picture about grief interweaving vignettes from reality and imagination, past and present. You can pleasantly lose yourself in its glamor and complexity, but ultimately it comes to seem too much in love with its own cleverness and the emotion gets lost. Introduced in the Premières section at Cannes the theatrically released in the French prime cultural season (September, "La Rentrée), it has been generally well received in France.