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1st Love (1er amour)

German title: 1er amour (Erste Liebe)
Russian title: Первая любовь
Original title: 1er amour

Alternative titles:
1er Amour / Premier amour / First Love

Youth drama – Canada
Production year: 2012
Movie length: 81 minutes

Director: Guillaume Sylvestre
Writer: Guillaume Sylvestre
Cinematograph: Nathalie Moliavko-Visotzky
Music: Marie-Claude Gagné, Marc Lalonde

Movie description:

While on a summer vacation with his parents on an island on the St. Lawrence River, Antoine experiences the thrills of love, as he falls for Anna, who thrives on playing games of seduction. Desire, obsession and distress ensue until a terrible secret changes their lives forever.

Antoine, 13, spends the summer vacation with his parents in a rented cottage on an island in the middle of the Saint-Lawrence River. His neighbor, 17-year-old Anna, is an enigmatic and lively young woman. Antoine begins to experience the first stirrings of love – which soon yield a troubling brew of anxiety, desire and obsession. He eventually comes across a terrible secret that will forever change his life.

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