Goodbye First Love

Goodbye First Love
Goodbye First Love
Directed by	Mia Hansen-Løve
Screenplay by	Mia Hansen-Løve
Produced by	Phillipe Martin
Cinematography	Stéphane Fontaine
Edited by	Marion Monnier
Release date	July 6, 2011 (France);
Running time	110 minutes
Countries	France; Germany;
Language	French
Budget	€4 million

Goodbye First Love (French: Un amour de jeunesse) is a 2011 Franco-German film directed by Mia Hansen-Løve.^[2] It was selected for the main competition at the 2011 Locarno International Film Festival.

Plot

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. 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. When they return in autumn Sullivan leaves, writing letters to Camille while she marks his route on a map on her bedroom wall.

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 and also suffers a miscarriage. 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.

Music

"Volver a los 17" by Violeta Parra
"Gracias a la vida" by Violeta Parra
"Little Ticks of Time" by Matt McGinn
"Music for a Found Harmonium" by Penguin Cafe Orchestra
"Wasps in the Woodpile" by Andrew Cronshaw
"The Water" by Johnny Flynn and Laura Marling

Filming locations

Ardèche, France
Copenhagen, Denmark
Dessau, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany
Kastrup, Amager, Denmark (sea baths)
Paris, France
Sanatorium d'Aincourt, Aincourt, Val-d'Oise, France

Awards

2011: Locarno International Film Festival: Special Mention. 4 nominations.
2011: Gijon Film Festival: Official Selection
2011: Toronto International Film Festival (nomination)

Cast

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

References

^ Fabien Lemercier (2010-09-06). "Mia Hansen-Love tourne Un amour de jeunesse" (in French). Cineuropa.org. Retrieved 2011-08-26.
^ Smith, Ian Hayden (2012). International Film Guide 2012. p. 120. ISBN 978-1908215017. {{cite book}}: |access-date= requires |url= (help)

External links

[1] Fabien Lemercier (2010-09-06). "Mia Hansen-Love tourne Un amour de jeunesse" (in French). Cineuropa.org. Retrieved 2011-08-26.

[2] Smith, Ian Hayden (2012). International Film Guide 2012. p. 120. ISBN 978-1908215017. {{cite book}}: |access-date= requires |url= (help)

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