Goodbye First Love (2012)
Mature themes, nudity and coarse language
| Director: | Mia Hansen-Love |
| Actors: | Lola Creton, Sebastian Urzendowsky, Magne-Håvard Brekke |
Spring, 1999. Camille (newcomer Lola Créton) is 15 years old and desperately in love and lust with Sullivan, who is four years her senior. The naive Camille takes her first relationship extremely seriously, but Sullivan wants to go to South America for a year. In autumn, he leaves her.
2003. Camille studies architecture and lives on her own. On a trip to Denmark, she slowly falls for her eloquent professor, Lorenz. In many ways, he offers her what Sullivan could not, but when Sullivan reappears a few years later, Camille finds herself caught between two loves.
Handled with elegance and insight by award-winning director Mia Hansen-Løve (Father of My Children), Goodbye First Love is a beautiful, whimsical reminiscence about the agony and the ecstasy of young love.
| Status: | QuickPick |
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| Run time: | 110mins |
| Origin: | FRANCE |
| Aspect Ratio: | 16:9 |
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Okay film
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As lovers of French movies, we put this on with a keen sense of anticipation, only to find it was one of the most tedious movies we've ever watched. We found Lola Creton as Camille totally lacking in charisma - in fact in any animation at all - and because of this it was impossible to engage emotionally with, or even care much about, her or any of the other characters. Sullivan's passion for such a miserable individual was inexplicable. There seemed virtually no chemistry between the two loves, and the way she drifted through the vague and indeterminate plot of the film, never showing any convincing emotion or making a conscious decision about the direction of her life was intensely irritating. Many of the critics inexplicably raved about this film and possibly, with a more appealing and sympathetic female lead, it might have worked. But for us, apart from the occasional glimpses of the glorious French countryside, it was a pointless and boring exercise. No stars.
gerd
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Do we ever get over first love? Perhaps not. The movie starts out well with the joy and passion of young love. But then it gets really slow, dwelling on inconsequential details in the journey to adulthood. Eventually there is a new relationship and it becomes interesting again as the consequences of first love become apparent. All rather sad on reflection and true to life.