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{{Short description|2011 film by Mia Hansen-Løve}}
{{Infobox film
{{Infobox film
| name = Goodbye First Love
| name = Goodbye First Love
| image = Un amour de jeunesse.jpg
| image = Un amour de jeunesse.jpg
| caption = Film poster
| caption = Theatrical release poster
| native_name = {{Infobox name module|fr|Un amour de jeunesse}}
| director = [[Mia Hansen-Løve]]
| director = [[Mia Hansen-Løve]]
| screenplay = Mia Hansen-Løve
| producer = Phillipe Martin<br>David Thion
| screenplay = [[Mia Hansen-Løve]]
| producer = Phillipe Martin<br>[[David Thion]]
| starring = [[Lola Créton]]<br>[[Sebastian Urzendowsky]]<br>[[Magne-Håvard Brekke]]
| starring = {{Plainlist|
* [[Lola Créton]]
* [[Sebastian Urzendowsky]]
* Magne-Håvard Brekke
* [[Valérie Bonneton]]
* [[Serge Renko]]
* [[Özay Fecht]]
}}
| cinematography = [[Stéphane Fontaine]]
| cinematography = [[Stéphane Fontaine]]
| editing = [[Marion Monnier]]
| editing = [[Marion Monnier]]
| distributor = [[Les Films du Losange]]
| studio = {{Plainlist|
* Les Films Pelléas
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| released = {{Film date|2011|7|6|France|df=y}}
* Razor Film
* [[Arte France Cinéma]]
* [[ZDF]]/[[Arte]]
* Rhône-Alpes Cinéma
* Jouror Productions
}}
| distributor = {{Plainlist|
* [[Les Films du Losange]] (France)
* Peripher Filmverleih (Germany)
}}
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| released = {{Film date|df=y|2011|7|6|France|2012|9|27|Germany}}
| runtime = 110 minutes
| runtime = 110 minutes
| country =
| country = {{Plainlist|
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* France
{{Plainlist |
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* Germany
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*France
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*Germany
}}
}}
| language = French
| language = French
| budget = €4 million<ref>{{cite web | url=http://cineuropa.org/2011/nw.aspx?t=newsdetail&lang=fr&documentID=150047| title=Mia Hansen-Love tourne Un amour de jeunesse| publisher=Cineuropa.org |language= French |author=Fabien Lemercier|date=2010-09-06| accessdate=2011-08-26}}</ref>
| budget = €4 million<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cineuropa.org/en/newsdetail/150047/|title=Mia Hansen-Love shoots ''Un amour de jeunesse''|website=[[Cineuropa]]|last=Lemercier|first=Fabien|date=6 September 2010|access-date=23 August 2023}}</ref>
| gross = $64,925<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.jpbox-office.com/fichfilm.php?id=12257|title=Un amour de jeunesse |work=JP's Box-Office }}</ref>
| gross = $64,925<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.jpbox-office.com/fichfilm.php?id=12257|title=Un amour de jeunesse|website=JP's Box-Office|language=fr|access-date=22 July 2021}}</ref>
}}
}}
'''''Goodbye First Love''''' ({{lang-fr|'''Un amour de jeunesse'''}}) is a 2011 Franco-German film directed by [[Mia Hansen-Løve]].<ref>{{cite book |title=International Film Guide 2012 |first=Ian Hayden |last=Smith |year= 2012 |isbn= 978-1908215017 |page= 120 }}</ref> It was selected for the main competition section at the 2011 [[Locarno International Film Festival]].
'''''Goodbye First Love''''' ({{langx|fr|Un amour de jeunesse}}) is a 2011 [[romantic drama film]] written and directed by [[Mia Hansen-Løve]].<ref>{{cite book|title=International Film Guide 2012|first=Ian Hayden|last=Smith|year=2012|isbn=978-1908215017|page=120}}</ref> It was selected for the main competition section at the 2011 [[Locarno International Film Festival]].


==Plot==
==Plot==
Camille is 15 years old and passionately in love and lust with her boyfriend Sullivan, who is 19. Sullivan is planning a 10-month trip to South America with his friends. He is not taking Camille with him, which makes her feel insecure and resentful. She irritates Sullivan by repeatedly insisting that he does not love her because he is leaving her. Before Sullivan departs, they spend one last idyllic getaway in Camille's mountain home in the Ardèche. Though the vacation starts off happily, Camille grows unhappy when Sullivan is away too long on an errand and leaves her alone. After a brief fight, they reconcile, and Sullivan promises to always love her.
{{plot|date=January 2018}}
Paris, 1999. Camille (Lola Créton) is 15 years old and passionately in love and lust with Sullivan (Sebastian Urzendowsky), who is 19. Sullivan is planning a 10-month trip to [[South America]] with his friends. He is not taking Camille with him, which makes her feel quite insecure and resentful. Her mother wants her to end her relationship with him since she's too young, while his mother doesn't like the idea of him leaving. He spends his time with his friends and making preparations for his departure which makes her feel neglected.


Eventually Sullivan leaves for his trip, leaving Camille despondent. Though Camille regularly receives letters from Sullivan, they eventually take on an unhappy tone; eventually Sullivan reveals that he wants to break off their relationship, and he stops writing. A depressed Camille attempts suicide, but survives, and resolves to move on with her life.
Before Sullivan departs, they spend some time in Camille's mountain home in the [[Ardeche]], riding horses through the fields, picking berries, basking in the sun and swimming in the [[Loire]]. One day while he is away for sometime, longer than expected, she finds herself very lonely. Upon his return she says that she doesn't want him to go saying she won't know what to do without him, that he will meet other women and forget about her. He assures her that none of that would happen since he loves her very much, adding that he's going for a reason, that they should have their own independent lives to live as well. They continue having fun together.


Four years later, Camille staves off her loneliness with work and school, where she is studying architecture. During her studies, she gradually falls in love with her much older professor Lorenz, in whom she sees a stable and secure influence and intellectual match. Four more years pass, and Camille, now with a career and a relationship with Lorenz, encounters Sullivan's mother by chance and reconnects with her old boyfriend. Coincidentally, on the day she meets with Sullivan and realizes that she is still attracted to him, she suffers a miscarriage.
When they return in autumn, Sullivan leaves, leaving her very unhappy. School keeps her busy. He writes letters to Camille speaking of his travel experiences, how much he misses and loves her, while she marks his route on a map on her bedroom wall. In one of his letters, he says that he feels distant from his life in Paris, that he wants to disappear from her life since he doesn't want himself to mean anything to her, and nothing remains of what they had said in the past.


When Lorenz leaves on a work trip, Camille and Sullivan begin an affair and confess that they never stopped loving each other. Consequently, her relationship with Lorenz becomes strained, especially when she secretly plans to take a trip to Sullivan's new home in Marseilles soon after Lorenz's return, under the guise of visiting a friend. However, a strike cancels her train. Though she is disappointed, a nonchalant Sullivan texts her saying that he is working anyway, and they can meet another time. Sometime later, Camille visits her mother, who gives her a letter recently sent by Sullivan. Sullivan writes that he dreamt of her while in bed with someone else, and dreamed that she was pregnant with his child. He says that they must break up because they are too early or too late to try being in love again, that he cannot bear the pain of their love, and that he hopes to find her again in the future. Camille is crushed.
Time passes, and Sullivan stops writing. Camille enters in a state of depression and ends up at a hospital after trying to kill herself. But she moves on with her life. In 2003, four years have gone by and Camille is an [[architecture]] student. She has moved on with her life, cut her hair, has a job, and slowly begins to fall in love with her professor Lorenz ([[Magne Håvard-Brekke]]). Camille sees in Lorenz a stable man that has his life sorted out and makes her feel secure. She begins to work for Lorenz.


Time passes, and Camille restores her relationship with Lorenz. Back at her mountain home in Ardèche, she invites him to the nearby river, and he tells her that he will meet her there shortly. She brings the hat that Sullivan had bought her for their own getaway years before, but unbeknownst to her as she plays in the river, it blows into the water and floats away as the film ends.
After eight years Camille and Sullivan meet again and she finds herself caught in between her university professor whom she has developed tender feelings for and her first love, whom she has never really forgotten.
One day on a bus with Lorenz, she runs into Sullivan's mother. She asks her if he's still in South America, to which she says that he returned some time ago. Camille gives her her contact number and asks Sullivan's mother to contact her if he would like to. Later she gets a text from him asking her to call him because he's too scared to call her. He runs into her on a street and they talk. He said that he had moved to Marseille about 3 years ago, was working as a photographer and would be opening up a company of his own, he didn't like Paris, but came there sometimes to meet his family, for work and had recently broken up with his girlfriend. She tells him that she's working for her architect boyfriend with whom she'll be moving in with and setup a company of her own. She suffers a miscarriage and is upset. Camille and Sullivan hang out in the evenings; going to bars and movies. She says she still loves him and doesn't know why, to which he says that she shouldn't be feeling that way. One evening when they meet, he says that she has been on her mind all week, loves her and misses her. With Lorenz out of the country, they check into a hotel and make love, after which they talk about how much they love and miss each other. They start having casual sex at her place and he tells her that she's being unfaithful, to which she says that she loves him. She buys a painting of a couple and a baby and gives it to him. He breaks down saying that he wanted her to be his wife and have kids with her.

He leaves Paris asking her if she would like to visit him in Marseille, to see his place and meet his friends. He forgets to take the painting with him. Upon Lorenz's return, she tells him that she's going to meet a friend of hers in Normandy, but goes to Marseille instead to meet him. He texts her asking her not to be sad, but he was working and that they can meet another time. She returns to Paris and visits her mother who has apparently separated from her father. Her mother gives her a letter which is from Sullivan, who says that he had a dream of another person in bed besides him and her; their baby and how much he wanted to have a family with her. He's says that he's breaking up with her for good since he can't seem to bear the pain of his love for her, and Camille is in tears.

She looks for Lorenz around the house and finds him sitting outside. She asks him if he'll go with her to [[Loire]]. He asks her to take a hat and a stick and go and he'll follow in sometime. She takes the hat bought by Sullivan and leaves. In the end it is shown that while swimming in the river, a gust of wind blows the hat into the river and is floating away.


==Cast==
==Cast==
* [[Lola Créton]] as Camille
*[[Lola Créton]] as Camille
* [[Sebastian Urzendowsky]] as Sullivan
*[[Sebastian Urzendowsky]] as Sullivan
* [[Magne-Håvard Brekke]] as Lorenz
*Magne-Håvard Brekke as Lorenz
* [[Valérie Bonneton]] as Camille's mother
*[[Valérie Bonneton]] as Camille's mother
* [[Serge Renko]] as Camille's father
*[[Serge Renko]] as Camille's father
* [[Özay Fecht]] as Sullivan's mother
*[[Özay Fecht]] as Sullivan's mother


==Production==
==Production==

===Filming===
[[Lola Créton]] was 16 years old when the film was shot. Director [[Mia Hansen-Løve]] said it was a big deal for Lola to play nude scenes. "But what's amazing is that, when the cameras rolled, she was free and sensuous like a cat. It was as if she was discovering her own sexuality before our eyes, but, as soon as the filming stopped, she'd retreat behind sheets, clothes immediately."<ref>{{cite news |last=Solomons |first=Jason |author-link=Jason Solomons |title=Mia Hansen-Løve: the broken heart that made me a film-maker |newspaper=[[The Observer]] |date=29 April 2012 |url=https://www.theguardian.com/theobserver/2012/apr/29/mia-hansen-love-french-director |access-date=13 February 2022}}</ref>


===Music===
===Music===
* "Volver a los 17" by [[Violeta Parra]]
*"Volver a los 17" by [[Violeta Parra]]
* "Gracias a la vida" by [[Violeta Parra]]
*"Gracias a la vida" by Violeta Parra
* "Little Ticks of Time" by [[Matt McGinn]]
*"Little Ticks of Time" by [[Matt McGinn (Scottish songwriter)|Matt McGinn]]
* "Music for a Found Harmonium" by [[Penguin Cafe Orchestra]]
*"Music for a Found Harmonium" by [[Penguin Cafe Orchestra]]
* "Wasps in the Woodpile" by [[Andrew Cronshaw]]
*"Wasps in the Woodpile" by [[Andrew Cronshaw]]
* "The Water" by [[Johnny Flynn (musician)|Johnny Flynn]] and [[Laura Marling]]
*"The Water" by [[Johnny Flynn (musician)|Johnny Flynn]] and [[Laura Marling]]


===Filming locations===
===Filming locations===
* [[Ardèche]], France
*[[Ardèche]], France
* [[Copenhagen]], Denmark
*[[Copenhagen]], Denmark
* [[Dessau]], Saxony-Anhalt, Germany
*[[Dessau]], Saxony-Anhalt, Germany
* [[Kastrup]], Amager, Denmark (sea baths)
*[[Kastrup]], Amager, Denmark (sea baths)
* [[Paris]], France
*[[Paris]], France
* [[Sanatorium d'Aincourt]], Aincourt, Val-d'Oise, France
*[[Sanatorium d'Aincourt]], Aincourt, Val-d'Oise, France

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==Critical response==
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On the [[review aggregator]] website [[Rotten Tomatoes]], the film holds an approval rating of 83% based on 54 reviews, with an average rating of 7.3/10. The website's critics consensus reads, "''Goodbye First Love'' captures teen ardor with a patiently naturalistic approach, further proving writer-director Mia Hansen-Løve is a major talent to watch."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/un_amour_de_jeunesse|title=Goodbye First Lo|website=[[Rotten Tomatoes]]|access-date=23 August 2023}}</ref> [[Metacritic]] gives the film a score of 80 out of 100 based on 21 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.metacritic.com/movie/goodbye-first-love|title=Goodbye First Love|website=[[Metacritic]]|access-date=22 July 2021}}</ref>

Noel Murray of ''[[The A.V. Club]]'' said that "''Goodbye First Love'' sometimes tells when it should show, and in their younger guises, particularly, Créton and Urzendowsky come off as so self-absorbed that they're almost insufferable".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.avclub.com/goodbye-first-love-1798172459|last=Murray|first=Noel|title=Goodbye First Love|website=[[The A.V. Club]]|date=19 April 2012|access-date=22 July 2021}}</ref>


Jordan Mintzer of ''[[The Hollywood Reporter]]'' wrote that the film is "[a]n airy yet incisive third feature from French auteur Mia Hansen-Love".<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-reviews/goodbye-first-love-amour-de-208454/|last=Mintzer|first=Jordan|title=Goodbye First Love (Un amour de jeunesse): Film Review|magazine=[[The Hollywood Reporter]]|date=7 July 2011|access-date=22 July 2021}}</ref>
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== Critical response ==
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Review aggregation website [[Rotten Tomatoes]] gives the film a rating of 80% based on reviews from 50 critics, with an average rating of 6.9/10.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/un_amour_de_jeunesse/|title=Un amour de jeunesse (Goodbye First Love) (2012) |website= [[Rotten Tomatoes]] | publisher = [[Flixster]] }}</ref> [[Metacritic]] gives the film a score of 80 out of 100 based on 21 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.metacritic.com/movie/goodbye-first-love |title=
Goodbye First Love |website= [[Metacritic]] |publisher = [[CBS Interactive]] }}</ref>


==Awards and nominations==
==Awards and nominations==
* 2011: [[Locarno International Film Festival]]: Special Mention
*2011: [[Locarno International Film Festival]]: Special Mention
* 2011: Gijon Film Festival: Official Selection
*2011: Gijon Film Festival: Official Selection


==References==
==References==
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==External links==
==External links==
* {{IMDb title|1618447|Goodbye First Love}}
* {{IMDb title}}
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* {{Rotten Tomatoes|goodbye_first_love|Goodbye First Love}}
* [http://www.filmaffinity.com/es/film747719.html Film Affinity]


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Latest revision as of 22:25, 21 December 2024

Goodbye First Love
Theatrical release poster
FrenchUn amour de jeunesse
Directed byMia Hansen-Løve
Screenplay byMia Hansen-Løve
Produced byPhillipe Martin
David Thion
Starring
CinematographyStéphane Fontaine
Edited byMarion Monnier
Production
companies
Distributed by
Release dates
  • 6 July 2011 (2011-07-06) (France)
  • 27 September 2012 (2012-09-27) (Germany)
Running time
110 minutes
Countries
  • France
  • Germany
LanguageFrench
Budget€4 million[1]
Box office$64,925[2]

Goodbye First Love (French: Un amour de jeunesse) is a 2011 romantic drama film written and directed by Mia Hansen-Løve.[3] It was selected for the main competition section at the 2011 Locarno International Film Festival.

Plot

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Camille is 15 years old and passionately in love and lust with her boyfriend Sullivan, who is 19. Sullivan is planning a 10-month trip to South America with his friends. He is not taking Camille with him, which makes her feel insecure and resentful. She irritates Sullivan by repeatedly insisting that he does not love her because he is leaving her. Before Sullivan departs, they spend one last idyllic getaway in Camille's mountain home in the Ardèche. Though the vacation starts off happily, Camille grows unhappy when Sullivan is away too long on an errand and leaves her alone. After a brief fight, they reconcile, and Sullivan promises to always love her.

Eventually Sullivan leaves for his trip, leaving Camille despondent. Though Camille regularly receives letters from Sullivan, they eventually take on an unhappy tone; eventually Sullivan reveals that he wants to break off their relationship, and he stops writing. A depressed Camille attempts suicide, but survives, and resolves to move on with her life.

Four years later, Camille staves off her loneliness with work and school, where she is studying architecture. During her studies, she gradually falls in love with her much older professor Lorenz, in whom she sees a stable and secure influence and intellectual match. Four more years pass, and Camille, now with a career and a relationship with Lorenz, encounters Sullivan's mother by chance and reconnects with her old boyfriend. Coincidentally, on the day she meets with Sullivan and realizes that she is still attracted to him, she suffers a miscarriage.

When Lorenz leaves on a work trip, Camille and Sullivan begin an affair and confess that they never stopped loving each other. Consequently, her relationship with Lorenz becomes strained, especially when she secretly plans to take a trip to Sullivan's new home in Marseilles soon after Lorenz's return, under the guise of visiting a friend. However, a strike cancels her train. Though she is disappointed, a nonchalant Sullivan texts her saying that he is working anyway, and they can meet another time. Sometime later, Camille visits her mother, who gives her a letter recently sent by Sullivan. Sullivan writes that he dreamt of her while in bed with someone else, and dreamed that she was pregnant with his child. He says that they must break up because they are too early or too late to try being in love again, that he cannot bear the pain of their love, and that he hopes to find her again in the future. Camille is crushed.

Time passes, and Camille restores her relationship with Lorenz. Back at her mountain home in Ardèche, she invites him to the nearby river, and he tells her that he will meet her there shortly. She brings the hat that Sullivan had bought her for their own getaway years before, but unbeknownst to her as she plays in the river, it blows into the water and floats away as the film ends.

Cast

[edit]

Production

[edit]

Filming

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Lola Créton was 16 years old when the film was shot. Director Mia Hansen-Løve said it was a big deal for Lola to play nude scenes. "But what's amazing is that, when the cameras rolled, she was free and sensuous like a cat. It was as if she was discovering her own sexuality before our eyes, but, as soon as the filming stopped, she'd retreat behind sheets, clothes immediately."[4]

Music

[edit]

Filming locations

[edit]

Critical response

[edit]

On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 83% based on 54 reviews, with an average rating of 7.3/10. The website's critics consensus reads, "Goodbye First Love captures teen ardor with a patiently naturalistic approach, further proving writer-director Mia Hansen-Løve is a major talent to watch."[5] Metacritic gives the film a score of 80 out of 100 based on 21 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews".[6]

Noel Murray of The A.V. Club said that "Goodbye First Love sometimes tells when it should show, and in their younger guises, particularly, Créton and Urzendowsky come off as so self-absorbed that they're almost insufferable".[7]

Jordan Mintzer of The Hollywood Reporter wrote that the film is "[a]n airy yet incisive third feature from French auteur Mia Hansen-Love".[8]

Awards and nominations

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References

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  1. ^ Lemercier, Fabien (6 September 2010). "Mia Hansen-Love shoots Un amour de jeunesse". Cineuropa. Retrieved 23 August 2023.
  2. ^ "Un amour de jeunesse". JP's Box-Office (in French). Retrieved 22 July 2021.
  3. ^ Smith, Ian Hayden (2012). International Film Guide 2012. p. 120. ISBN 978-1908215017.
  4. ^ Solomons, Jason (29 April 2012). "Mia Hansen-Løve: the broken heart that made me a film-maker". The Observer. Retrieved 13 February 2022.
  5. ^ "Goodbye First Lo". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 23 August 2023.
  6. ^ "Goodbye First Love". Metacritic. Retrieved 22 July 2021.
  7. ^ Murray, Noel (19 April 2012). "Goodbye First Love". The A.V. Club. Retrieved 22 July 2021.
  8. ^ Mintzer, Jordan (7 July 2011). "Goodbye First Love (Un amour de jeunesse): Film Review". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 22 July 2021.
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