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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.
Thomas 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