Goodbye First Love (2011)
Average Rating: 6.9/10
Reviews Counted: 50
Fresh: 40 | Rotten: 10
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Critic Reviews: 19
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Fifteen-year-old Camille (Lola Créton) is a serious, intensely focused girl who has fallen in love with cheerful Sullivan (Sebastian Urzendowsky), an older boy who reciprocates her feelings, mostly, but wants to be free to explore the world. When he leaves her to travel through South America, she is devastated. But over the next eight years, she develops into a more fully formed woman, with new interests and a new love-and the possibility that she'll be less defenseless when Sullivan enters her
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Cast
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Lola Creton
Camille -
Sebastian Urzendowsky
Sullivan -
Magne Havard Brekke
Lorenz -
Valérie Bonneton
Camille's Mother -
Serge Renko
Camille's Father -
Özay Fecht
Sullivan's Mother -
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All Critics (53) | Top Critics (19) | Fresh (40) | Rotten (10)
"Goodbye First Love" is fascinating.
Top CriticHansen-Løve films with an eye toward discovering and rediscovering these characters in pure moments of simple, poignant humanity - wading in a river, clambering over rocks.
"Goodbye First Love" is a very lifelike film in the sense that life does not often imitate entertainment.
Writer-director, Mia Hansen-Løve, whose third feature this is, has addressed her subject with complete emotional confidence.
This is an easy movie to spoil. It's rather plotless. But things happen in precisely the way that life happens.
[A] acute drama of young romance and passionate sex, as well as what you learn when you lose both.
Love hurts. Especially when you're 15.
I can respect the director for the effort, but it felt too much like a self important student film.
The first half, with its woozy romanticism, is spectacular, but it begins to lose its way.
"Goodbye First Love" is like a postcard from a lost Eden, a painfully pure oasis where we're not allowed to linger.
The autobiographical third feature from French director Mia Hansen-Løve limns the ecstasy and tumult of youthful, sometimes self-destructive passion.
It's as precise and ultimately as undefined as life itself.
At once a paean and a eulogy to that unforgettable first love, Mia Hansen-Løve's latest feature is a refreshingly frank look at young adult relationships.
Hansen-Løve deftly captures all the emotions of a time when the shortest separation feels like an eternity and the slightest misunderstanding a calamity.
The young stars may irritate as many viewers as they delight, but their rather stroppy chemistry is convincing and memorable.
Créton has the doe-like Rohmer face, and Hansen-Løve has the cool Rohmer touch - the one that lends grandeur to tales of middle-class Parisian heartache.
A small, sweet film that tells an old story with some new twists.
The unromantic pain and euphoria of love are instantly revived in this outstanding film.
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Foreign Titles
- Un amour de jeunesse (DE)
- Goodbye First Love (Un amour de jeunesse) (UK)
In Mia Hansen-Løves simplistic melodrama we meet turtle doves Camille and Sullivan. Initially, in their lust-filled adolescence with sex as the focal point. She, with the dream of a long-lasting relationship. He, considerably more reckless, as he pledges his eternal love, only to move with his friends to South America moments thereafter.
The emotional climate that ensues is an exhaustingly dull subsistence with Camille in the abyss of melancholy. The pseudo-empathic Sullivan reports of his adventures with letters from abroad, but after a while they stop coming. Years go by. Camille meets someone new. But just as she turns over a new leaf, her shaggy-haired first love returns to her life again, with additional heartache to follow.
I appreciate simplicity and unpretentious narratives, but that also requires that I'm captivated by the characters. Sullivan can be immediately discounted with his condemnable selfishness. Camille I do suffer with, but when her qualms are mostly composed of milk-and-water platitudes, you wish in vain that the theatre seat came outfitted with a fast-forward button.
There's world-voyaging, moped-riding, berry-picking in picturesque locales. Yet, Goodbye First Love, in its entirety, feels destinationless. A postcard from a place which, albeit photogenic, has little to offer beyond its quasi-meditative (but overall yawn-inducing) tranquility.
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