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Love at First Fight

2014 · 98 min

A gentle, offbeat romance that drifts between awkward comedy and quiet longing, with a scrappy boot-camp backdrop giving it an unexpected edge.

Directed by
Thomas Cailley
Genres
Comedy, Romance
Starring
Adèle Haenel, Kévin Azaïs, Antoine Laurent
Overview
Arnaud, facing an uncertain future and a dearth of choices in a small French coastal town, meets and falls for the apocalyptic-minded Madeleine, who joins an army boot camp to learn military and survival skills to prepare for the upcoming environmental collapse. Intrigued and excited by Madeleine’s wild ideas, Arnaud signs up for the boot camp himself. They soon realize that the boot camp is harder than they’d imagined, but the experience nonetheless cements them together as the couple continues to explore their young love.

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Directed by
Thomas Cailley
Genres
Comedy, Romance
Starring
Adèle Haenel, Kévin Azaïs, Antoine Laurent
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Tone
  • warmstrength 2 of 3
  • lightstrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • coming-of-age
  • love
  • identity
  • survival
  • family
Places
  • small town
  • countryside
  • military
Era
contemporary
Audience
teen
Form
None
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action3
Horror1
Humour6
Realism8
Romance7
Tension4
Darkness3
Complexity4
Emotional weight5

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Genres
comedy, romance
Directed by
Thomas Cailley
Written by
Thomas Cailley, Claude Le Pape
Starring
Adèle Haenel, Kévin Azaïs, Antoine Laurent, Brigitte Roüan, William Lebghil, Thibaut Berducat, Nicolas Wanczycki, Frédéric Pellegeay
Cinematography
David Cailley
Runtime
98 min
Country
France
Languages
French

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