
Between his friends and the family business, Arnaud's summer looks set to be a peaceful one--until he runs into Madeleine, as beautiful as she is brusque, a concrete block of tensed muscles and doomsday prophecies. He expects nothing; she prepares for the worst. He takes things as they come, likes a good laugh. She fights, runs, swims, pushes herself to the limit. Given she hasn't asked him for anything, just how far will he go along with her? It's a love story. Or a story of... (Full plot summary below)
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Between his friends and the family business, Arnaud's summer looks set to be a peaceful one--until he runs into Madeleine, as beautiful as she is brusque, a concrete block of tensed muscles and doomsday prophecies. He expects nothing; she prepares for the worst. He takes things as they come, likes a good laugh. She fights, runs, swims, pushes herself to the limit. Given she hasn't asked him for anything, just how far will he go along with her? It's a love story. Or a story of survival. Or both.
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| New YorkerRichard BrodyFor a movie about bodily endurance and rugged adventure, Cailley's direction is oddly detached-he lets the script (which he co-wrote with Claude Le Pape) suggest the tough work and hardly bothers to film it. |
| Spirituality and PracticeFrederic and Mary Ann BrussatFrench film about two adventuresome youth who go into training for the end of the world |
| Hollywood ReporterClarence TsuiLove at First Fight is overflowing with relentlessly acerbic humor that shapes the way the film's two young protagonists contend with not just each other, but also with the uncertainties of the world they're emerging into as adults. |
| VarietyPeter DebrugeThough the slow-boil chemistry is there, the script feels flat, content to rely on the surface friction between its lead actors, rather than creating scenes in which we can really get to know the pair’s respective personalities before testing their limits in the field. |
| Little White LiesSophie Monks KaufmanAdèle Haenel's ingenue allure elevates Thomas Cailley's sweet-natured survivalist romance. |
| The ListEmma SimmondsIt's undeniably on the slight side but this is an endearingly scrappy film with a fighter's spunk and a lover's heart that doesn't surrender to sentimentality. |
| Los Angeles TimesGary GoldsteinCailley never truly builds a narrative head of steam, resulting in periods of logy pacing and diffused focus. Still, the strong leads, several amusing moments and a clutch of intriguing character bits sketch what might have been. |
| The PlaylistJessica KiangHeavy on charm and affection for its characters, light on importance...Les Combattants is the age-old tale of attractive young people falling for each other...with just enough pretty scenery and underplayed chemistry to make it worth tagging along. |
| The DissolveMatthew DessemThe title does a real disservice to the film, a romantic comedy made with both visual and narrative intelligence, centered by great performances from Kévin Azaïs and Adèle Haenel. |
| New Zealand HeraldPeter CalderThe debut feature for its young writer-director, this unassuming but engaging French dramedy deserves the prizes it picked up at Cannes and at the country's Oscar-equivalent Cesars. |