Eine Jugendliebe (2011)

Eine Jugendliebe: Directed by Mia Hansen-Løve. With Lola Créton, Sebastian Urzendowsky, Magne-Håvard Brekke, Valérie Bonneton. A chronicle of the romance between Camille and Sullivan, which begins during their adolescence and picks up after Sullivan’s 8-year absence from exploring the world.

“One of the first things you notice in Mia Love-Hansenu0026#39;s film, u0026#39;Goodbye First Loveu0026#39;, is that the supposedly fifteen year old protagonist looks much older; it turns out, thereu0026#39;s a reason for this, which is that the drama is going to follow her over several years, so the age of the actress was necessarily a compromise. In fact, the film is conceptually not dissimilar (though heterosexual, and less generally ambitious) from u0026#39;Blue is the Warmest Colouru0026#39;: a sensitive and well-drawn story about a talented, attractive young woman whose life is overshadowed by the memory of an intense early relationship. As in real life, when someone is pointlessly in love with someone who does not desire them, you partly want to scream u0026quot;get over it!u0026quot;, especially when they have obvious advantages they could be exploiting; but humans arenu0026#39;t that simple, although the ending is a touch underwhelming, the story is nicely observed. And if you generally like emotional films about beautiful young Parisiennes, youu0026#39;ll like this one too.”