Goodbye First Love is a poetic, sensitive exploration of adolescent love and passion told through the life of our main protagonist, Camille. The film begins with Camille in a relationship with Sullivan, who she believes is her soulmate. Sullivan is older, and wants to explore the world, but to Camille, who has a rather limited point-of-view of the world, Sullivan is merely wanting to do things instead of being with her-leading to an inevitable break-up. The film chronicles Camille's life from the aforementioned, where she is 15, to later in her life, where she is pursuing a career in architecture and seeing her former teacher. It's a real pleasure to see this woman's life unfold in front of the viewer, and you really see this character grow as a person, while still maintaining the sensibilities which are merely a part of her soul. Oh course, she reconnects with Sullivan, creating a reminder of her past love. Mia Hansen-Love's Goodbye First Love is a film full of genuine emotion, deconstructing adolescence by looking at the love, lust, longing, obsession and disappointment which love entails. Like most french films, the film is very talky and sensual-at one point in the film the script itself pokes fun at this generalization, where Camille and Sullivan argue about the quality of a film they just saw. There is definitely a comparison to be made between "Like Crazy' and this, but both have rather different approaches in their deconstruction of how love, memory and distance intermingle. I definitely liked it, but I wasn't as emotionally invested as I thought I would be.
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