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‘Love Me Tender’ Review: Vicky Krieps Ignites an Elegant and Moving Portrait of Motherhood at Odds With Selfhood
Vicky Krieps is riveting as a divorced mother fighting for access to her beloved son in Anna Cazanave Cambet's debut feature "Love me Tender."
Anna Cazenave Cambet’s sweeping, moving “ Love Me Tender,” based on the semi-autobiographical novel by Constance Debré, aims at the heart of this pervasive ideology of hypocrisy and unreachably high expectations, and largely thanks to a rivetingly radiant Vicky Krieps, hits its mark with painful accuracy. Even though all involved understand she is blameless, the tortuous process drags on to the extent that she will not see Paul for 18 months, or as she says in voiceover (sparingly but eloquently excerpted from the work of autofiction Clémence is writing) “two of her birthdays, one of his.” Even then, she is restricted to brief sessions under supervision by a social worker(Aurélia Petit). It’s an enormous, generous performance, even her body language changes — slinky and nonchalant when circling a new lover, loose-limbed and girlish when relaxing with friends, and tight and compressed in that horrible mediation room, her burners on low, her expression concentrated like she’s willing her heart to slow its beat.
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