Goodbye First Love (2011) poster
2011 · drama · romance

Goodbye First Love

Directed by Mia Hansen-Løve1h 48m2011
ElsewhereIMDb6.76kRT83%Metacritic80TMDB6.2151
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Neutral, steady, measured drama / romance, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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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.

Our read · Goodbye First Love (2011) reads as a neutral, steady, grounded drama · romance entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.

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You want an honest, melancholic portrait of first love and its lasting shadow.

ends bittersweetit stays with youa slow buildgrips by minute 12attention 3/5earns its lengthsubtitles: full
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around

Skip it tonightYou want upbeat romance or quick resolution tonight.

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Each axis is hand-scored — not derived from votes or genre averages. The marker shows where this film sits; the gradient fill uses the film's own cinematography palette.

Mood · HeavyCosy
Pacing · Slow-burnKinetic
Intensity · GentleExtreme
Weirdness · ConventionalSurreal
Hope · NihilisticRedemptive
Stakes · IntimateEpic
Humour · NoneBroad
Reality · GroundedFantastical
Density · SparseTwisty
Warmth · ColdTender
Auteur · TransparentSignature
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