Mia Hansen-Løve's third film came as something of a surprise to those who had been following her career: though made with the same precociously masterful precision of her preceding two films, Goodbye First Love evinces the unbridled emotional urgency and semi-autobiographical reflection of a first film. Fifteen-year-old Camille (a star-making performance by Lola Créton) is consumed with passion for her boyfriend Sullivan (Sebastian Urzendowsky), but their blissful summer in the countryside ends in despair when Sullivan suddenly informs her that he is determined to travel to South America to experience the world. Following an attempted suicide and a devastating bout of depression, the film deftly breezes though more than seven years of Camille's life as she begins to study architecture and eventually finds new strength by falling in love again with her much older, intellectually stimulating professor, Lorenz (Magne-Håvard Brekke). However, when Sullivan suddenly reappears in her life, Camille is torn between her loves from adolescence and adulthood. "An entrancingly sweet and bracingly unsentimental story of youthful passion" (A.O. Scott, The New York Times); "Goodbye First Love plays like an old Françoise Hardy song, its lachrymose-by-numbers shape belying an ineffable sorrow of time passing, of love's un-return" (Jay Kuehner, Cinema Scope).