![]() ![]() The sound track breaks out in joyous music, and right away we know, that this is First Love, and also (because we have been here before) that it is doomed. It is the lovely Zinaida, playing lawn tennis with that sweatless perfection that only aristocrats seem to approach. The story involves young Alexander, who is walking through the woods one day when zap! an apparition appears before him. In his directing debut, Maximilian Schell has taken a Turgenev story and stretched it out with silence, vast characterless landscapes, plenty of birds, some solitude and a visual style that doesn't help much. The problem in "First Love" (apart from the fact that the conclusion in no way emerges organically from the material) is that the whole movie is so smug in its sense of tragedy. ![]()
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