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Le premier venu (2008)

121 min · Drama, romance film

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Directors

Jacques Doillon

Cast

Clémentine Beaugrand, Gérald Thomassin, Guillaume Saurrel

A young woman from a bourgeois background decides to give her love to the first man who comes along.

The story

In her twenties and from a bourgeois background, a young woman feels that her life is deeply inadequate and pointless. Longing for greater intensity, she wants to bring some light and lightness into her existence. She decides to give her love not to a man she considers especially attractive, deserving, or admirable, but to the first man who comes along—because, in her view, those other men do not need her.

Full plot (contains spoilers)

The young woman is in her twenties and comes from a bourgeois background. She wants to bring a little light and lightness into her life, which she sees as deeply inadequate and pointless. It lacks the intensity she needs. She decides to give her love—not to the most attractive, deserving, or admirable man; no, they don’t need her. She will give her love to the “first man who comes along.”

Genres

Drama, romance film

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