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Goodbye First Love

2011 · 1h 48m · NOT RATED Drama, Romance
Directed by Mia Hansen-Løve

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Overview

A 15-year-old discovers the joys and heartaches of first love with an older teen, but in the ensuing years, cannot seem to move past their breakup.

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80%
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Fresh

"Goodbye First Love" is fascinating.

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
Fresh

Hansen-Love films with an eye toward discovering and rediscovering these characters in pure moments of simple, poignant humanity - wading in a river, clambering over rocks.

Tom Keogh, Seattle Times
Rotten

"Goodbye First Love" is a very lifelike film in the sense that life does not often imitate entertainment.

Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune
Fresh

"Goodbye First Love" is like a postcard from a lost Eden, a painfully pure oasis where we're not allowed to linger.

Joe Williams, St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Fresh

Writer-director, Mia Hansen-Love, whose third feature this is, has addressed her subject with complete emotional confidence.

Stanley Kauffmann, The New Republic

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