Keep It for Yourself

American film

Keep It for Yourself

Directed by| Claire Denis
Written by| Claire Denis
Produced by| Philippe Carcassonne
Ted Hope
Starring| Sophie Simon
Sarina Chan
Michael James
Cinematography| Agnès Godard
Edited by| Dominique Auvray
Music by| John Lurie

Production
companies

Allarts
Good Machine

Running time

| 40 minutes
Countries| 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

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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

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

## Notes

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* 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]

## References

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1. ^ "Desire Is Violence". BFI. Archived from the original on September 10, 2011. Retrieved November 3, 2011.

## External links

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* 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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Films directed by Claire Denis

* Chocolat (1988)
* No Fear, No Die (1990)
* Jacques Rivette, le veilleur (1990)
* Keep It for Yourself (1991)
* I Can't Sleep (1994)
* Nénette and Boni (1996)
* Beau Travail (1999)
* Trouble Every Day (2001)
* Vendredi soir (2002)
* The Intruder (2004)
* 35 Shots of Rum (2008)
* White Material (2009)
* Bastards (2013)
* Let the Sunshine In (2017)
* High Life (2018)
* Both Sides of the Blade (2022)
* Stars at Noon (2022)

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