# Keep It For Yourself

KEEP IT FOR YOURSELF a film by CLAIRE DENIS . 1991, USA, 40 min. With Sara Driver, Vincent Gallo and Sophie Simon. A long-unseen New York story from a contemporary master, with a French woman in a foreign city, a stolen car and an unexpected romance. Le Cinéma Club returns with Claire Denis’ only film made in America, the brilliant, long-thought-lost 1991 Keep It for Yourself. The story centers on the chance encounters, confusions and adventures of Sophie, a young Frenchwoman stranded in downtown New York after her lover’s disappearing act. Originally commissioned as one third of an omnibus feature showcasing the Figaro, a Japan-only retro throwback car, the film was a surprising challenge for Denis as she came off her sophomore feature, 1990’s No Fear, No Die . The only constraint given to her was to include the car in some way. Denis responded with a clever screenplay that still feels modern, and that gives this out-of-place looking car a role both central and discreet. Her voice is unmistakable throughout; the film is full of her signature sensuality and love of local downtown characters, and is a beautifully balanced love story. Longtime Denis collaborator Agnès Godard provides the lustrous, high-contrast black-and-white photography, and Vincent Gallo makes an unforgettable appearance in the first of four roles for the filmmaker. Keep It for Yourself also acts as an invaluable snapshot of American independent cinema in the ’90s: the first film out of future producing…

- Kind: Film
- Year: 1991
- By: Claire Denis
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/KeepItForYourself)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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