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Luxembourg actress Vicky Krieps has been in the West of Ireland this week, attending the 34th annual Galway Film Fleadh (film festival).
On Thursday evening, she attended the screening of "Serre moi fort" (Hold me Tight), a French-language drama shot in the Pyrenees, and she participated in a post-screening Q&A at the Town Hall Theatre in Galway. In the film she plays Clarisse, a wife and mother of two pre-teenage children, who leaves home one day. The audience is left guessing her motives until near the end when all is ultimately revealed. She talks with friends, travels to the coast and has numerous flashbacks, including of her daughter playing the piano and the four of them staying in a mountain-top hotel during the skiing season.
She was asked how she prepared for her role in this 2021 film, compared to others such as for her roles in Corsage, Phantom Thread, Gutland, Old and Bergman Island. She explained that her roles, although unique in each different film, were similar in many ways with the blurring between reality and the tricks one mind plays.
On Friday, Vicky Krieps held an acting masterclass (Mike Newell, director of Four Weddings and a Funeral, delivered a Directing Masterclass in another industry event during the festival) at the Galmont Hotel in Galway.
Guy Daleiden, Director of Film Fund Luxembourg, Alexis Juncosa, Artistic Director of the Luxembourg City Film Festival, and Geoff Thompson, organiser of the British & Irish Film Festival Luxembourg, were also attending the festival in various capacities.
The Galway Film Fleadh is a community-focussed film festival which encourages first-time film-makers and productions in the Irish language.
