SummaryFifteen-year-old Camille is a serious, intensely focused girl who has fallen in love with cheerful Sullivan, 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 woma... Read More
Directed By:Mia Hansen-Løve
Written By:Mia Hansen-Løve
Goodbye First Love
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Generally Favorable
80
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6.9
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
86% Positive
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Apr 17, 2012
100
Brava, Mia! The exceedingly talented Ms. Hansen-Løve (the writer-director of Father of My Children) is sure to win many more fans with her latest feature, an incisive, exhilaratingly frank examination of l'amour lost.
Apr 20, 2012
90
This is a rigorously crafted film steeped in the French tradition, but it's meant to be a sensual and emotional experience, not a verbal or analytical one. Most of all, it's a spectacular eyeful.
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Aug 17, 2012
8
Sweet and harmless, this film evokes emotion and memories. As a viewer who's at the same age as the characters in the film, I can relate to some of the things and still learn from how much the characters change and mature themselves, regardless how their relationship evolves.
Apr 25, 2012
5
Although well-made in terms of direction, photography, and performance, this film cannot escape the maudlin qualities of the traditional love story. The lovers are callow and perhaps underdeveloped, so it is impossible to care much about them. If you find that the film's title puts you on the verge of allergic reaction, do not go.
Apr 30, 2012
80
Some will find Camille too self-absorbed, yet writer/director Mia Hansen-Løve (Father Of My Children) conjures poignancy, grace and a feel for symbolic seasonal change that's positively Renoir-esque.
Apr 15, 2012
80
The present picture, filmed with supreme confidence, offers another unapologetically sentimental story stripped to its emotional core.
Jun 22, 2012
75
Goodbye First Love doesn't badger the viewer into drawing conclusions. It's interested in showing, with great compassion, how Camille comes to a fuller understanding of the world and herself, without the sort of prefab lessons more often found in films than in real life.
Apr 17, 2012
70
Like "Father of My Children," Goodbye First Love loosely fictionalizes lived experience in order to capture the ineffable - in this case, emotional maturation or, as Sullivan phrases it, "becom[ing] a real person."
Apr 14, 2012
50
A poignant sense of time's unyielding forward progress and a mood of deep adolescent sorrow aren't enough to overshadow the insufferable blankness of Goodbye First Love's navel-gazing protagonists.
Oct 10, 2012
4
Our unsmiling protagonist pines on and on through bedrooms, country houses, architect school, and late adolescence and early adulthood, unable to get a real life because she can't get the old boyfriend off her mind. At least she learned to let go of a hat!
Production Company:
- Les Films Pelléas
- Razor Film Produktion GmbH
- Arte France Cinéma
- WDR/Arte
- Rhône-Alpes Cinéma
- Jouror Productions
- ARTE
- Canal+
- CinéCinéma
- Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée (CNC)
- Filmförderungsanstalt (FFA)
- Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg
- La Région Île-de-France
- Région Rhône-Alpes
- Cinémage 5
- Cofimage 22
Release Date:Apr 20, 2012
Duration:1 h 50 m
Awards
Locarno Film Festival
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
Sarasota Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
Gijón International Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
