Keep It for Yourself is a 1991 black-and-white short drama film written and directed by Claire Denis.
Keep It for Yourself | |
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Directed by | Claire Denis |
Written by | Claire Denis |
Produced by | Philippe Carcassonne Ted Hope |
Starring | Sophie Simon Sarina Chan Michael James |
Cinematography | Agnès Godard |
Edited by | Dominique Auvray |
Music by | John Lurie |
Production companies | |
Running time | 40 minutes |
Countries | United States France Netherlands |
Language | English |
Plot edit
Sophie comes to New York from France with the intention of meeting up with a man she met a few months before. She finds herself alone in the man's apartment, and she discovers that he left town because he was scared stiff at the idea of seeing her.
Cast edit
- Sophie Simon
- Sarina Chan
- Michael James
- E. J. Rodriguez
- Jim Stark
- James Schamus
- Michael Stun
- Sara Driver
- Vincent Gallo
Notes edit
- The French director Claire Denis hired Vincent Gallo to act in several films, such as Keep It for Yourself, the made-for-TV U.S. Go Home, and its follow-up feature Nénette et Boni (1996).
- Claire Denis preferred black faces in her movies at first.[citation needed] "Vincent Gallo is an old face for me - the first time I shot him was 10 years ago in a short I made in New York called Keep it for Yourself".[1]
References edit
- ^ "Desire Is Violence". BFI. Archived from the original on September 10, 2011. Retrieved November 3, 2011.
External links edit
- Keep It for Yourself at IMDb
- Review at Gareth's Movie Diary (2008)
- "Claire Denis, a Stranger Cinema," Harvard Film Archive