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You Go To My Head SHARE BUTTON With his solo debut feature (having previously co-directed 1995’s The Blue Villa with Alain Robbe-Grillet), You Go to My Head, director Dimitri de Cler- cq evokes everything from the psychosexual dynamics of 1940s melodramas to the dusty desola- tion of Ozploitation, with dashes of Hitchcock, Nicolas Roeg and Richard Stanley thrown in for good measure. The result is a heady NJ STAGE - ISSUE 68 by Eric Hillis brew that doesn’t always work, but for long periods of its narrative, de Clercq’s film keeps you gripped, and marks the veteran producer turned newbie director as one to watch. Like Coralie Fargeat’s Re- venge, You Go to My Head is an unsettling game of gender chess that plays out against a desert backdrop. Here it’s the Sahara, where a 35-year-old Belgian INDEX NEXT ARTICLE 44