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GOODBYE FIRST LOVE (UN AMOUR DE JEUNESSE)Movie Reviews
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 BonnetonDirector:Mia Hansen-LøveRelease Date:April 20, 2012DVD Release:September 25, 2012From:IFCLength:1 hr. 50 min.
SEPTEMBER 25, 2012
Goodbye First Love (Un amour de jeunesse), Excellent Reviews Key Cities
Goodbye First Love (Un amour de jeunesse) played in key cities 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 (22 Reviews, reviews below)
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."(See all of Lisa Schwarzbaum's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 88 words, 05/04/12
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: VERY GOOD(cg) " 'Goodbye First Love' is the third feature by Mia Hansen-Løve, herself only 31, whose previous film was the perceptive 'Father of My Children'..."(See all of Roger Ebert's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 619 words, 06/29/12
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NEW YORK/LOS ANGELES/CHICAGO/TORONTO (8 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."(See all of A.O. Scott's reviews...)(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."(See all of Elizabeth Weitzman's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 143 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."(See all of David Edelstein's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 545 words, 04/16/12
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: VERY GOOD(cg) " 'Goodbye First Love' is the third feature by Mia Hansen-Løve, herself only 31, whose previous film was the perceptive 'Father of My Children'..."(See all of Roger Ebert's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 619 words, 06/29/12
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."(See all of Karina Longworth's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 660 words, 04/18/12
KEY CITIES (6 Reviews)
Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star-Tribune: WEAK(cg) "Attention, moviemakers: Having been in a bad relationship is an unusually common experience and not just cause for making a film."(See all of Colin Covert's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 104 words, 06/08/12
Walter Addiego, San Francisco Chronicle: VERY GOOD(cg) "...unsentimental, closely observed... The subject could lend itself to melodramatics and histrionics, but Hansen-Løve's approach is quiet and careful."(See all of Walter Addiego's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 286 words, 06/22/12
Tom Keogh, Seattle Times: VERY GOOD(cg) "...literally captures the experience of reconnecting with someone special you haven't seen for many years, picking up exactly where you left off."(See all of Tom Keogh's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 295 words, 06/15/12
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..."(See all of Stan Hall's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 163 words, 02/10/12
Joe Williams, St. Louis Post-Dispatch: VERY GOOD(cg) "Distinctly European in its nuance and neutrality... like a postcard from a lost Eden, a painfully pure oasis where we're not allowed to linger."(See all of Joe Williams's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 322 words, 05/25/12
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."(See all of Karina Longworth's reviews...)(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."(See all of Patrick Z. McGavin's reviews...)(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."(See all of Noel Murray's reviews...)(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."(See all of Nick Schager's reviews...)(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."(See all of A.O. Scott's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 587 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..."(See all of Andrew O'Hehir's reviews...)(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."(See all of Boyd Van Hoeij's reviews...)(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."(See all of Jordan Mintzer's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 647 words, 07/07/11
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."(See all of A.O. Scott's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 587 words, 04/20/12
14.9 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 14.9 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.
Goodbye First Love (Un amour de jeunesse) (22 reviews) Roll over dots for each review
Coverage:Goodbye First Love (Un amour de jeunesse)'s reviews cover 29.7% of potential readers (average is 67.9%). Volume:The film's reviews total 10,239 words involume (average is 20,172 words). Length:The film's reviews average 465 words in length (the norm is 517 words).
Goodbye First Love (Un amour de jeunesse) Coverage, Volume & Length (22 Reviews, reviews below)
Reviews Broke 4 Days Before Release (Norm is 1.2 Release)
Goodbye First Love (Un amour de jeunesse)'s reviews on average broke 4 days before opening. Norm for this measure is 1.2 hours before. 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.
Goodbye First Love (Un amour de jeunesse) (22 reviews, click on bars for reviews)
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