Monday, March 21, 6:30pm
The College of Health and Human Services, #281, UNC Charlotte Main Campus
Les Combattants / Love at First Fight
Director Thomas Cailley
France, 2014, 98 min
In French with English subtitles
Presented as part of The Tournées Festival, which was made possible with the support of the Cultural Services of the French Embassy in the US, the Centre National de la Cinématographie et de l’Image Animée, and the Franco-American Cultural Fund.
Additional sponsors are the Alliance Française de Charlotte and the UNC Charlotte French Club.
Introduction by Mary LaMarca, Lecturer of French, Department of Languages and Culture Studies, UNC Charlotte. Discussion will follow screening.
This thoroughly delightful first film upends the cliché of the “meet cute.” It follows the unlikely attraction that develops between Arnaud, a mild-mannered woodworker and carpenter, and Madeleine, a doomsday-obsessed graduate student preparing for an elite army unit. Intrigued by his first, embarrassing encounter with Madeleine, Arnaud finds himself enrolling in the same intensive two-week boot camp that she is attending. When this training course proves dissatisfying to both of them, they break away, setting out on their own makeshift survival course. As in the best comedies about mismatched couples, much of the enormous appeal of Love at First Fight is rooted in the terrific chemistry between Azaïs and Haenel, two of France’s brightest young talents.
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Reviews:
“An expertly handled and brilliantly performed feel-good comedy with an original
twist!”—Cine-Vue
Social Media Links: Les Combattants on YouTube
