Effectively extends the range of one of France's most notable young directors - besides reminding those of us who once suffered the pangs of teenage love that we're very well out of it.

"Goodbye First Love" is fascinating.

Hansen-Lve films with an eye toward discovering and rediscovering these characters in pure moments of simple, poignant humanity - wading in a river, clambering over rocks.

The frank, direct, attentive, and well-meaning way in which the characters are observed makes a sharp complexity spring from the narrative flow.