GOODBYE FIRST LOVE
| 2012 – 110′ – Drama,
Written by: Mia Hansen-Love.
Directed by: Mia Hansen-Love.
Starring: Lola Creton, Sebastian Urzendowsky, Magne-Håvard Brekke, Serge Renko, Valérie Bonneton, Özay Fecht, Max Ricat, Louis Dunbar.
Official Selections: Locarno International Film Festival 2011, Toronto International Film Festival 2011, Telluride International Film Festival 2011, New York International Film Festival 2011.
Official Competition COLCOA 2012.
In French with English subtitles.
An IFC Films release. |
Paris, winter, 1999. Fifteen-year-old Camille and 19-year-old Sullivan are passionately in love with each other. However Sullivan wants to go to South America for a year and this prospect leaves Camille feeling desperate. Sullivan leaves at the end of summer and, after a few months, stops writing to Camille, who tries to kill herself in the spring. 2003. Camille focuses on her architecture studies. She meets a famous architect, Lorenz, who nurtures her self-confidence. She falls in love with him. 2007. Camille and Lorenz are a stable couple. Camille is his assistant, but she soon feels capable of establishing her own agency. It is at this point that she once again crosses paths with Sullivan. Despite a cool first meeting, Camille sees him a second time and eventually gets back together with him. She has never stopped loving him; he becomes her lover. Her heart is now torn between two loves.