Keep It for Yourself explained

Keep It for Yourself
Director:	Claire Denis
Producer:	Philippe Carcassonne Ted Hope
Starring:	Sophie Simon Sarina Chan Michael James
Music:	John Lurie
Cinematography:	Agnès Godard
Studio:	Allarts Good Machine
Runtime:	40 minutes
Country:	United States France Netherlands
Language:	English

Keep It for Yourself is a 1991 black-and-white short drama film written and directed by Claire Denis.

Plot

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

• Sophie Simon
• Sarina Chan
• Michael James
• E. J. Rodriguez
• Jim Stark
• James Schamus
• Michael Stun
• Sara Driver
• Vincent Gallo

Notes

• 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. "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]

External links

• Keep It for Yourself at IMDb
• Review at Gareth's Movie Diary (2008)
• "Claire Denis, a Stranger Cinema," Harvard Film Archive

Notes and References

1. Web site: Desire Is Violence . BFI . November 3, 2011 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110910064158/http://www.bfi.org.uk/sightandsound/feature/30 . September 10, 2011 .