Keep It for Yourself

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

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.

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

• 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.^{[citation needed]} "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]

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

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