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Mon premier amour

  • 1978
  • 1h 40m
IMDb RATING
5.9/10
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Mon premier amour (1978)
DramaRomance

Story of a young man who finally gets a chance to know and love his still beautiful mother who is dying of leukemia.Story of a young man who finally gets a chance to know and love his still beautiful mother who is dying of leukemia.Story of a young man who finally gets a chance to know and love his still beautiful mother who is dying of leukemia.

  • Director
    • Élie Chouraqui
  • Writers
    • Élie Chouraqui
    • Jack-Alain Léger
  • Stars
    • Anouk Aimée
    • Richard Berry
    • Nathalie Baye
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  • IMDb RATING
    5.9/10
    76
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Élie Chouraqui
    • Writers
      • Élie Chouraqui
      • Jack-Alain Léger
    • Stars
      • Anouk Aimée
      • Richard Berry
      • Nathalie Baye
    • 1User review
    • 1Critic review
  • See production info at IMDbPro
  • See production info at IMDbPro
    • Awards
      • 1 nomination total

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    Anouk Aimée
    Anouk Aimée
    • Jane Romain
    Richard Berry
    Richard Berry
    • Richard
    Nathalie Baye
    Nathalie Baye
    • Fabienne
    Gabriele Ferzetti
    Gabriele Ferzetti
    • Georges
    Jacques Villeret
    Jacques Villeret
    • Jacques Labrousse
    Gilles Ségal
    Gilles Ségal
    • Le professeur
    Nicole Seguin
    • Carole
    Arlette Gordon
    • Sarah
    Jacques Ebner
    • Le portier de nuit
    René Bouloc
    René Bouloc
    • Chauffeur de taxi
    Stéphane Nachba
    • Richard, enfant
    Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu
    Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu
    • Patron de café
    Maurice Chouraqui
    • Un ami
    Patrick Buenos
    • Chauffeur de taxi
    • Director
      • Élie Chouraqui
    • Writers
      • Élie Chouraqui
      • Jack-Alain Léger
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    ulicknormanowen

    Sons think that their mother is immortal.....

    At 20, Richard takes care of his friends and girlfriends more than his mother, with whom he still lives. Divorced, Jane sometimes feels tired, very tired. She decides to carry out additional analyzes which reveal leukemia with no cure. Richard then devotes himself and finally everything to his mother...

    Anouk Aimée ,who died yesterday, was never as beautiful (and lovingly filmed) as in Chouraqui's debut ; she literally shines so brightly in this somber tale that it's sometimes hard to believe she's dying of leukemia;anyway, the dialogue eschews all the tricks of classic melodrama ; no tears, no rebellion against an unfair fate, all the sentences avoid death ,but use voices filled full of hidden meanings ;if you expect "love story" you'll be disappointed .

    Anouk Aimée gets good support from Richard Berry as her distraught son ,whose relationship with her mother almost verges on platonic incest ; Jacques Villeret ,for once ,is not only used as a foil to the hero,but makes his scenes count; Gabriele Ferztti ,on the other hand , has a badly written part : the cliched aging bourgeois who left his wife -why he walked out on such an attractive woman remains a mystery,considering his atttitude .

    On the negative side, Iintrusive syrupy music sometimes drowns the emotion out ; the bar mitzvah celebration is pure filler,and "la Traviata" makes the movie turgid and bombastic, thus mars an intimate delicate narrative .Douglas Sirk was able to handle that :see the funeral of "imitation of life" (1959). But it was too much for a director's debut

    And to treat such a subject without falling into the trap of tear-jerker is quite a feat in itself ;in spite of its mediocre rating on imdb,it's a must for fans of the late Aimée.

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    • Release date
      • August 30, 1978 (France)
    • Country of origin
      • France
    • Language
      • French
    • Also known as
      • Meine erste Liebe
    • Production companies
      • Gaumont
      • France 3
      • 7 Films Cinéma
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      1 hour 40 minutes
    • Sound mix
      • Mono

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