A Private Life, the latest feature from French director Rebecca Zlotowski (Other People’s Children), stars the great Jodie Foster as an American psychotherapist living in Paris. When a patient of hers commits suicide, she is forced to reevaluate her entire […]

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“You know, you’re Irish, so when I’m saying Dédalus you’re probably thinking Joyce.” It’s early December in Avelino and Arnaud Desplechin isn’t really talking  A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. The French director’s latest, Spectateurs!, reintroduces the […]

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(Check out Ray Lobo’s movie review of Mathieu Amalric’s latest film Hold Me Tight is in select theaters now. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) The melancholy that runs through Hold Me Tight is a distinct one. […]

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After climbing the ladder to leading lady status over the last few years, Vicky Kreips continues to display her breathtaking versatile talent in Hold Me Tight, the sixth feature directorial venture of French actor Mathieu Amalric. In a César-nominated performance, […]

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(Rendez-Vous with French Cinema takes place at Film at Lincoln Center from March 3 – 13. Matt Delman has this movie review of Hold Me Tight, which will screen March 6 and March 13 at the Walter Reade Theater) Mathieu Amalric is […]

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(Darius Marder’s buzzed about narrative-feature debut Sound of Metal is streaming now on Amazon Prime. Like what you see here on Hammer to Nail? Why not give just $1.00 per month via Patreon to help keep us going?) Woven together with tough dramatic sinew, […]

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There is such a thing as pitch black comedy, and then there is the work of Chilean director Pablo Larraín, whose warped sense of humor deserves its own adjective. Tar black, maybe?