Goodbye First Love

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  • Opened April 20, 2012 (Limited)
  • 1 hr 48 min
  • Fifteen-year-old Camille (Lola Créton) is a serious, intensely focused girl who has fallen in love with easy-going 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 life again. Full synopsis

  • Cast: Lola Créton, Sebastian Urzendowsky, Magne Havard Brekke, Valérie Bonneton, Serge Renko, Ozay Fecht
  • Director: Mia Hansen-Løve
  • Genres: Art House/Foreign, Drama, Romance

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Time Out New York
| Keith Uhlich

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. Read full review

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NPR
| Scott Tobias

There are times when the title is more a wish than an action - because just as cocaine addicts are forever chasing that first high, there's always the hunger to recapture a lost feeling again, even for those who have spent years in recovery. Pity those who fall off the wagon. Read full review

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Arthouse audiences could drink this down like a glass of Chardonnay. Read full review

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St. Louis Post-Dispatch
| Joe Williams

Goodbye First Love is like a postcard from a lost Eden, a painfully pure oasis where we're not allowed to linger. Read full review

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Sebastian Urzendowsky as Sullivan and Lola Creton as Camille in ``Goodbye First Love.''