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GOODBYE FIRST LOVE (UN AMOUR DE JEUNESSE) Movie Reviews
Story: French German Danish language drama about a young woman who cannot forget the first love of her adolescence. Cast: Lola Creton, Sebastian Urzendowsky, Magne Havard Brekke, Valérie Bonneton Director: Mia Hansen-Løve Opened: April 20, 2012 From: IFC Length: 1 hr. 50 min.
Goodbye First Love (Un amour de jeunesse), Excellent Reviews Limited
Updated: Fri, May 11 2012, 00:20am
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Goodbye First Love (Un amour de jeunesse) opened in limited release to excellent reviews. • Kenneth Turan wrote in the Los Angeles Times, "...beautifully honest and psychologically astute... Nothing is rushed, everything is given its appropriate time and place." • And Scott Tobias wrote for NPR, "...subtle and perceptive... it is about emotions that linger and assert themselves against our better judgment."   More Reviews Below...

Goodbye First Love (Un amour de jeunesse)
Positive Reviews
(17 Reviews, reviews below)
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Reviews & Quotes (17)

BROAD NATIONAL PRESS (1 Review)
Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly: OUTSTANDING (cg)
"...an acute drama of young romance and passionate sex, as well as what you learn when you lose both.... love is more complicated than a 15-year-old girl can know." (Read the full review...)
88 words, 05/04/12
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NEW YORK/LOS ANGELES/CHICAGO/TORONTO (7 Reviews)
A.O. Scott, New York Times: EXCELLENT
"...examines, with compassion and clarity, a young woman's discovery of passion and also of the pain, disappointment and partial wisdom that follow." (Read the full review...)
587 words, 04/20/12

Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg)
"What saves the film is the fact that the characters are always easy to recognize, both as self-centered teenagers and tentatively maturing young adults." (Read the full review...)
143 words, 04/20/12

Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: EXCELLENT
"...beautifully honest and psychologically astute... Nothing is rushed, everything is given its appropriate time and place." (Read the full review...)
709 words, 04/20/12

V.A. Musetto, New York Post: VERY GOOD (cg)
"...so goes young love, beautifully rendered by Hansen-Love, with a powerful but understated performance by Lola Créton." (Read the full review...)
252 words, 04/20/12

David Edelstein, New York Magazine: VERY GOOD
"...harrowing... Mia Hansen-Løve's touch is glancing, suggestive, the locations conjuring inner states, the art concealed: She gives the impression of breathing her story rather than telling it." (Read the full review...)
545 words, 04/16/12

Karina Longworth, Village Voice/LA Weekly: GOOD
"...a film about learning how to plunder one's own experience to make something richer than direct memoir... Hansen-Løve is interested in how one learns to make art out of life." (Read the full review...)
660 words, 04/18/12
KEY CITIES (2 Reviews)
Wesley Morris, Boston Globe: VERY GOOD (cg)
"Love is blind, they say. The movie understands the hazard of that cliché: Some lovers are also blind spots." (Read the full review...)
679 words, 05/11/12

Stan Hall, Portland Oregonian: GOOD (cg)
"The sweet torture and intensity of young love, when even short absences make the heart grow truly desperate, are vividly captured by Mia Hansen-Love..." (Read the full review...)
163 words, 02/10/12
ALTERNATIVE/INDIE PRESS (5 Reviews)
Karina Longworth, Village Voice/LA Weekly: GOOD
"...a film about learning how to plunder one's own experience to make something richer than direct memoir... Hansen-Løve is interested in how one learns to make art out of life." (Read the full review...)
660 words, 04/18/12

Patrick Z. McGavin, Boston Phoenix: OUTSTANDING (cg)
"...evokes the consciousness of female desire as something blinding and all-encompassing... conveys an emphatic mixture of audacity, naïveté, and sexual abandon." (Read the full review...)
131 words, 05/10/12

Noel Murray, AV Club: OUTSTANDING (cg)
"...romanticizes the fervor of adolescent relationships -- particularly the way that young lovers feel prematurely like grown-ups -- and illustrates why they're untenable.... poignant, bittersweet, and true." (Read the full review...)
331 words, 09/10/11

Nick Schager, Slant: MODERATE (cg)
"...often bracing... [but] mistakes pretty-kid pouting, long silences, and heavy-handed environment-reflects-character symbolism for actual insight." (Read the full review...)
604 words, 10/13/11
HIGHBROW PRESS (4 Reviews)
A.O. Scott, New York Times: EXCELLENT
"...examines, with compassion and clarity, a young woman's discovery of passion and also of the pain, disappointment and partial wisdom that follow." (Read the full review...)
587 words, 04/20/12

Scott Tobias, NPR: EXCELLENT
"...subtle and perceptive... it is about emotions that linger and assert themselves against our better judgment." (Read the full review...)
662 words, 04/19/12

Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: EXCELLENT
"...beautifully honest and psychologically astute... Nothing is rushed, everything is given its appropriate time and place." (Read the full review...)
709 words, 04/20/12

Andrew O'Hehir, Salon: OUTSTANDING
"...so absorbing, from moment to moment, that I felt myself carried into Camille's world and at the same time carried back into my own memories.... a gorgeous, commanding work..." (Read the full review...)
982 words, 04/19/12
MOVIE INDUSTRY (4 Reviews)
Boyd Van Hoeij, Daily Variety: EXCELLENT
"Achieves an emotional honesty.... filmed with supreme confidence, offers an unapologetically sentimental story stripped to its emotional core." (Read the full review...)
750 words, 07/18/11

Jordan Mintzer, Hollywood Reporter: VERY GOOD
"...the sort of casual, insightful and at times sexually candid storytelling that, if it wasn't necessarily invented in France, has definitely become one the nation's more prized genres." (Read the full review...)
647 words, 07/07/11

Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: EXCELLENT
"...beautifully honest and psychologically astute... Nothing is rushed, everything is given its appropriate time and place." (Read the full review...)
709 words, 04/20/12

A.O. Scott, New York Times: EXCELLENT
"...examines, with compassion and clarity, a young woman's discovery of passion and also of the pain, disappointment and partial wisdom that follow." (Read the full review...)
587 words, 04/20/12
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Review Mixture
14.4 Percentage Points Average Difference Between Reviews
(Norm is 18.4pp; <18.4pp = More Consistent; >18.4pp = More Mixed)

Goodbye First Love (Un amour de jeunesse)'s reviews are separated by an average 14.4 percentage points. The norm for this measure is 18.4 percentage points. Less than 18.4 indicates more consistent reviews; greater than 18.4 indicates more mixed reviews. In the chart below, each dot represents a review, with the dots at the top more positive than the dots at the bottom. From left to right, the dots represent reviews in big, bigger and biggest publications. Roll over each dot for more detail.

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Coverage, Volume & Length

Coverage: Goodbye First Love (Un amour de jeunesse)'s reviews cover 24.7% of potential readers (average is 68.2%). Volume: The film's reviews total 8,613 words in volume (average is 19,979 words). Length: The film's reviews average 507 words in length (the norm is 512 words).

Goodbye First Love (Un amour de jeunesse)
Coverage, Volume & Length
(17 Reviews, reviews below)
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Opening Day Reviews
Reviews Broke 17 Days Before Release (Norm is 0.2 Release)

Goodbye First Love (Un amour de jeunesse)'s reviews on average broke 17 days before opening. Norm for this measure is 0.2 hours after. The chart below shows reviews on opening day and the days before and after opening; the left side is earlier and the right side is later. The red bars extending above the horizontal mid-line represent more positive reviews, and the red bars extending below represent more negative reviews. The white space/red bar in the middle is Goodbye First Love (Un amour de jeunesse)'s opening day. Click on any bar for a list of the reviews for that day.

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