Goodbye First Love (2011)
(Un amour de jeunesse)
Country: FR/GER
Technical: col 110m
Director: Mia Hansen-Løve
Cast: Lola Créton, Sebastian Urzendowsky, Magne-Håvard Brekke
Synopsis:
Camille and Sullivan fall in love as students, but their lives take separate trajectories and, though they are reunited, seem destined to keep them apart.
Review:
The director, whose sense of pacing clearly owes a lot to Rohmer, certainly manages to evoke that special seriousness of young love, the sense that nothing will ever be the same again. However, whether it is a function of the autobiographical inspiration or not, the film plods from one episode to the next without missing a beat over shattering events like a suicide attempt, and leaves the viewer with some fascinating perspectives on architectural theory but little more than a series of loosely linked memories of a love affair that fails to set the screen on fire. (Hansen-Løve did have a relationship with an older man, Olivier Assayas: doubtless the model for Brekke's role as her teacher of architecture.)
(Un amour de jeunesse)
Country: FR/GER
Technical: col 110m
Director: Mia Hansen-Løve
Cast: Lola Créton, Sebastian Urzendowsky, Magne-Håvard Brekke
Synopsis:
Camille and Sullivan fall in love as students, but their lives take separate trajectories and, though they are reunited, seem destined to keep them apart.
Review:
The director, whose sense of pacing clearly owes a lot to Rohmer, certainly manages to evoke that special seriousness of young love, the sense that nothing will ever be the same again. However, whether it is a function of the autobiographical inspiration or not, the film plods from one episode to the next without missing a beat over shattering events like a suicide attempt, and leaves the viewer with some fascinating perspectives on architectural theory but little more than a series of loosely linked memories of a love affair that fails to set the screen on fire. (Hansen-Løve did have a relationship with an older man, Olivier Assayas: doubtless the model for Brekke's role as her teacher of architecture.)
(Un amour de jeunesse)
Country: FR/GER
Technical: col 110m
Director: Mia Hansen-Løve
Cast: Lola Créton, Sebastian Urzendowsky, Magne-Håvard Brekke
Synopsis:
Camille and Sullivan fall in love as students, but their lives take separate trajectories and, though they are reunited, seem destined to keep them apart.
Review:
The director, whose sense of pacing clearly owes a lot to Rohmer, certainly manages to evoke that special seriousness of young love, the sense that nothing will ever be the same again. However, whether it is a function of the autobiographical inspiration or not, the film plods from one episode to the next without missing a beat over shattering events like a suicide attempt, and leaves the viewer with some fascinating perspectives on architectural theory but little more than a series of loosely linked memories of a love affair that fails to set the screen on fire. (Hansen-Løve did have a relationship with an older man, Olivier Assayas: doubtless the model for Brekke's role as her teacher of architecture.)