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First Love
Directed by
Matteo Garrone
Not Rated
2004
1h 40m
Drama
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Romance
,
and more
6.6
53%
55%
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Vittorio, a goldsmith looking for his perception of beauty, meets Sonia and manages to convince her to lose weight to an unhealthy degree.
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Cast of First Love
Michela Cescon
Sonia
Vitaliano Trevisan
Vittorio / Writer
Roberto Comacchio
Fratello di Sonia
Alberto Re
Medico
Paolo Capoduro
Paolo
Elvezia Allari
Anna
Antonella Mazzuccato
Antonella
Gianluca Moretto
Mopi
Marco Manzardo
Marco
Antonio Viero
Mario
Deni Viero
Figlio di Mario
Claudio Manuzzato
Cuoco
Pierpaolo Speggiorin
Agente immobiliare
Paolo Cumerlato
Cameriere
Matteo Garrone
Director / Writer
Massimo Gaudioso
Writer
Marco Mariolini
Writer
Domenico Procacci
Producer
First Love Ratings & Reviews
Film Journal International
Rex Roberts
As lovely to watch as it is painful to contemplate.
One Guy's Opinion
Frank Swietek
Perhaps it's appropriate that a tale about the avoidance of food should be so unappetizing, but that doesn't make it any more enjoyable to watch.
TheMovieChicks.com
Cherryl Dawson and Leigh Ann Palone
This is not a great date movie, unless you know your partner will let you have popcorn AND candy and not make you suffer for it later.
Los Angeles Daily News
Bob Strauss
Primo Amore tunnels deeply enough into its characters' psyches to reach classic tragedy levels.
Los Angeles CityBeat
Andy Klein
...never gets enough beneath the surface to justify [Vittorio's] eventual transformation into something out of a horror movie.
Los Angeles Times
Kevin Thomas
An elegantly told tale of obsession.
L.A. Weekly
Brendan Bernhard
Could do with a bit more plot: It doesn't resolve so much as collapse in utter desolation.
New York Daily News
Jami Bernard
It feels like a sketch for a larger work that would go beyond the well-worn insights of diet literature.
Film-Forward.com
Kent Turner
Connecting the tenuous expository scenes are hard-hitting moments as Sonia continues to starve herself, and Vittorio offers rewards and punishments.
Variety
Russell Edwards
While engaging, pic eventually betrays itself as having a trivial attitude to its chosen subject.
Newark Star-Ledger
Lisa Rose
The scenario is ludicrous, yet it's filmed and performed in such a way that it creates unbearable tension.
New York Post
V.A. Musetto
[A] wonderfully quirky love story.
New York Times
Manohla Dargis
Set in northern Italy and in the darkest recesses of a woman's heart, Primo Amore is a horror movie about desire and the toxic pursuit of perfection.
TV Guide
Ken Fox
The atmosphere is once again black, creepy and unsettlingly elegant, lending this twisted tale of psychological dominance and submission a patina of anxiety and dread.
Village Voice
Dennis Lim
Probing the trust-based power games of a sadomasochistic dynamic, the movie is a reasonably thoughtful study of obsessive love.
Spirituality & Practice
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
An engrossing Italian psychodrama about a driven man's obsession with a warped vision of beauty and a woman's sad subservience to his efforts to make her over.
ReelTalk Movie Reviews
Donald J. Levit
Too claustrophobic and writ small for my taste.
Slant Magazine
Ed Gonzalez
Primo Amore is as moody as Matteo Garrone's previous feature, The Embalmer, from which it seems to have pilfered much of its metaphoric import.
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