Film Review
Toute premiere fois
(a.k.a.
I Kissed a Girl)
is the first feature from directors Noémie Saglio and Maxime Govare,
the latest in a depressingly long line of 'coming out' comedies
in which, this time, the main character is a gay man who wakes up one
morning to discover he fancies the opposite sex. It's a pretty
lame pretext but it's basically all the film has as it treads an all
too predictable path in a sub-genre that has already been mined to
death. The film's release is timely, however, as gay marriage
only became legal in France in May 2013, and it remains a highly
contentious topic.
On the plus side, the film boasts a respectable cast headed by Pio
Marmaï and Lannick Gautry, who previously appeared together in
Rémi Bezançon's
Un heureux événement
(2011). Marmaï is a likeable and talented performer,
although he appears more at home in drama than comedy, evidenced by
some of his comic turns in Saglio and Govare's film which deliver more
pain than mirth, notably an awful striptease-dance sequence. The
performances could have been better if the film's authors had put more
effort into the script instead of lazily recycling old ideas.
With scarcely a single original idea in sight,
Toute premiere fois very quickly
outstays its welcome.
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Film Synopsis
34-year-old Jérémie is about to get married to his
long-term boy friend Antoine when Eros throws a banana skin in his
path. Waking up one day, he finds himself in bed with a woman - a
ravishingly beautiful Swede named Adna. How is this
possible? Jérémie is at a complete loss to account
for his attraction for Adna, and yet he finds her sufficiently
desirable to wonder whether he should cancel his marriage plans.
To straighten matters out, he consults his friend and colleague
Charles, who has the bright idea of hiring Adna to work in their
office. It isn't long before Antoine begins to suspect that
something may be up...
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