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French with English subtitles

A triple winner at last year’s Cannes, where it played in the Directors’ Fortnight, Love at First Fight offers a warm and refreshing coming-of-age story. Easygoing and naïve Arnaud (Kévin Azaïs) plans to spend the summer helping his brother in the family carpentry business. But when he meets Madeleine (Adèle Haenel), a steely young woman determined on the harshest military service and preoccupied with visions of the apocalypse, he adoringly follows her to boot camp.

les-combattantsThomas Cailley’s first feature may feel unmistakably familiar, yet it offers two alluring and empathetic protagonists (portrayed by equally likable actors), well-wrought humor, and gorgeous cinematography by David Cailley (the director’s brother). Nominated for nine César Awards including Best Film. A Strand Releasing release.

“Easily likeable rite-of-passage drama with a witty screenplay and matching performances from its leads.” -Clarence Tsui, The Hollywood Reporter

Awards

2014 Cairo International Film Festival
Best Actress- Adèle Haenel
2014 Cannes Film Festival
FIPRESCI Prize (Directors’ Fortnight), Art Cinema Award, SACD Prize (Directors’ Fortnight), Europa Cinemas Label Award- Thomas Cailley
2014 Louis Delluc Prize
Best First Film- Thomas Cailley
20th Lumières Awards
Most Promising Actor- Kévin Azaïs, Best First Film- Love at First Fight
Prix du Syndicat Français de la Critique de Cinéma
Best First Film- Love at First Fight