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Love at First Fight

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Love at First Fight (French: Les Combattants) is a 2014 French romantic comedy film directed by Thomas Cailley. Arnaud, facing an uncertain future and a dearth of choices in a small French coastal town, meets and falls for the apocalyptic-minded Madeleine, who joins an army boot camp to learn military and survival skills to prepare for the upcoming environmental collapse. Intrigued and excited by Madeleine's wild ideas, Arnaud signs up for the boot camp himself. They soon realize that the boot camp is harder than they'd imagined, but the experience nonetheless cements them together as the couple continues to explore their young love.
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SF Weekly
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December 31, 2015

Thomas Cailley's Love at First Fight is a French romantic comedy that's a good thing for a change, instead feeling more like a charming YA novel.
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The Film Stage
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February 22, 2016

Irritably charming, Love at First Fight is a warm summer romance destined to be remade by Hollywood.
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Time Out
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June 15, 2015

Director Thomas Cailley conjures up a vivid, unusual world, offering a playful reversal of usual gender roles.
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Observer (UK)
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June 21, 2015

The dramatic final act is audacious, yet wholly in keeping with the film's bubbling themes of love and war.
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Los Angeles Times
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June 12, 2015

There's a better movie floating around the edges of the French import "Love at First Fight" than first-time feature director Thomas Cailley has allowed to surface.
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New Zealand Herald
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May 04, 2016

The 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.
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Hollywood Reporter
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December 31, 2015

Love 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.
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The Arts Desk
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January 01, 2016

Les Combattants is diverting enough, but it is not exceptional.
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San Francisco Chronicle
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June 11, 2015

All in all, this film is refreshingly original, an existential, boy-meets-survivalist romantic comedy.
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Total Film
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December 31, 2015

Crowd-pleasing without compromising on its uniqueness, the result has romcom structure but a beguiling adventure mood reminiscent of the best US indies.
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Variety
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December 31, 2015

Aggression, not affection, sparks romance in Les Combattants, a promising feature debut that already had members of the French film establishment touting newcomer Thomas Cailley as the next big thing.
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Washington Post
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June 11, 2015

What starts out as a promisingly unique tale of a macho woman and the meek guy who falls for her turns into something else once Madeleine leaves for training camp and Arnaud follows.
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