Kino Lorber has acquired North American rights to Mathieu Amalric’s Cannes 2021 family drama Hold Me Tight starring Vicky Krieps.
Krieps plays a woman coping with great emotional upheaval while Arieh Worthalter is her abandoned husband struggling to take care of the children while his wife flees the family for unknown reasons. Hold Me Tight is adapted from Claudine Galea’s stage play.
Laetitia Gonzalez and Yaël Fogiel produced with Olivier Pere. Les Films du Poisson produced with co-production partners Gaumont, Arte France Cinéma and Lupa Film.
The film enjoyed a prestige festival run that encompassed Rotterdam, Busan, and Rendez-Vous with French Cinema in New York. Krieps and Amalric, directing his sixth film, earned Cesar nominations. César
Kino Lorber SVP Wendy Lidell negotiated the deal with Alexis Cassanet of Gaumont out of the Rendez-Vous with French Cinema market hosted by Unifrance.
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