Hold Me Tight (2021 film)

Hold Me Tight grossed $74,723 in North America,[1] and $852,244 in other territories for a worldwide total of $926,967.[3]

Hold Me Tight has received critical acclaim. On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 84% based on 45 reviews, with a weighted average of 7.3/10. The website's critical consensus reads, "Hold Me Tight trips over style while reaching for substance; fortunately, it has Vicky Krieps' stellar performance to keep it from falling down."[2] On Metacritic, the film holds an 82 out of 100 rating, based on 13 reviews, indicating "universal acclaim".[6]

Critic Michael O'Sullivan praised the film's depiction of grief in a 3 out of 4 star review for The Washington Post, describing it as a "strange and compelling film, a study of grief that somehow is at once moving and detached, in the way that people in mourning sometimes engage in denial-like displacement activities: behavior that's inappropriate to the emotion at hand."[7] In her 3.5 out of 4 star review for Indiewire, critic Susannah Gruder credited both Amalric's direction and Kriep's leading performance, saying "[Kriep's] wispy elegance is tempered by a clumsy charm as she lovingly strokes her daughter's hair, or floats through the world in her newly-solo life. Her general state of dazed detachment gives weight to one particularly explosive outburst of anger and pain toward the film's end, devastating in its cathartic confrontation with reality."[8]