Love me tender: Vicky Krieps once again masterful (review)
A powerful adaptation of Constance Debré’s book about her fight to regain custody of her son, where the actress fascinates with the power of her interpretation.
In 2020, Constance Debré published Love me Tendera book with raw and angry force where she candidly recounted her fight to regain custody of her son. This guard that her ex-husband had removed when she revealed to him that she was now having love affairs with women, which he had experienced as a humiliation.
Revealed in 2021 by the very sensual Gold for Dogs, Anna Cazenave Cambet seizes this intimate story while retaining all the emotional power that twists your stomach in the face of the injustice experienced by this woman. Thanks to the strength of the text of course. Thanks to the intelligence of the filmmaker in not having been afraid of going long and in understanding that duration constitutes a central element of the way in which we as spectators experience the fight of her heroine. But also and above all thanks to the way in which Vicky Krieps takes on this eminently complex character since he must endure everything without revolting or overreacting under penalty of seeing his chances of regaining this famous guard further diminish.
As if she were trapped in quicksand and condemned to never free herself from it. Each scene facing his ex (another great performance as a competitive bastard by Antoine Reinartz, after Anatomy of a Fall, as a man feeling violated in his masculinity and ready to do anything to make him pay) chills the blood with the incredible interiority of his interpretation. And this way of making everything felt in a constant economy of words and gestures. A huge actress.
Of Anna Cazenave Cambet. With Vicky Krieps, Antoine Reinartz, Monia Chokri… Duration 2h13. Released December 10, 2025
