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Vicky Krieps Has Yet to Recover From Cannes Custody Drama ‘Love Me Tender’: ‘This Film Pushed Me to My Limit’
Vicky Krieps on her queer custody drama 'Love Me Tender' which world premiered at Cannes' Un Certain Regard.
Director Anna Cazenave Cambet adapted the wrenching film from author Constance Debré’s autobiographical novel, which recounted the years-long custody battle that would then ensue – a period in which the distressed mother was often legally barred from seeing her child. After reading both the book and script over the course of one day, Vicky Krieps chased after the role – setting the actor up for the most challenging shoot of her career. She moves into her late aunt’s house and joins a quirky theater club that claims to use a secret technique—turns out, it’s method acting, though they don’t know it.
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