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First Love, Last Rites

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A couple (Natasha Gregson Wagner, Giovanni Ribisi) fall in and out of love in a shack they share with her young brother (Eli Marienthal) in the Louisiana bayou.

Critics Reviews

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Emanuel Levy EmanuelLevy.Com 08/16/2011
C
Jesse Peretz's feature directing debut is a dull portrait of an idyllic first love between two misfits. Go to Full Review
Jeffrey M. Anderson Combustible Celluloid 05/26/2006
3.5/4
Doesn't seem destined for box office success, but it's an impressive first film, and one I found myself thinking about for days afterward. Go to Full Review
Film Threat 12/06/2005
4/5
Film Threat 12/08/2002
4/5
David Poland Hot Button (Substack) 07/26/2002
4/5
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06/03/2010 This is a strange movie. The young stars spend a lot of time at home being bored, then they have sex, get bored again, listen to a phonograph, have sex, get bored again, talk, talk and talk. Natasha Gregson Wagner looks and sounds so much like her mother sometimes it is eerie. Slow moving, I think it was meant to be that way, perhaps to get the feeling of swampy Louisiana. Wagner's character is very unappealing, and it really hurts the film, but I liked her performance. Offbeat, and it sure doesn't make you feel warm all over.There didn't seem to be much point to the film. See more 07/28/2008 I think this film is very interesting, and in a lot of ways it really does remind me of my youth. There is a definite uncertainty hanging about the two characters in the film, and you you get the sense that they are not quite sure who they are or where they are going. They are looking to one another to provide those answers but, finding that such relief isn't there, they become even further detached. I really like the way their relationship was examined and presented. It's a very careful portrait of adolescent innocence, and the transition into adulthood that comes with the very sudden, stark realization that you have lost it already, and you didn't even know it. See more 09/19/2007 good not more but i liked it See more 03/14/2007 great ............................. See more 09/26/2006 50/100. This is a strange movie. The young stars spend a lot of time at home being bored, then they have sex, get bored again, listen to a phonograph, have sex, get bored again, talk, talk and talk. Natasha Gregson Wagner looks and sounds so much like her mother sometimes it is eerie. Slow moving, I think it was meant to be that way, perhaps to get the feeling of swampy Louisiana. Wagner's character is very unappealing, and it really hurts the film, but I liked her performance. Offbeat, and it sure doesn't make you feel warm all over.There didn't seem to be much point to the film. See more Read all reviews
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Movie Info

Synopsis A couple (Natasha Gregson Wagner, Giovanni Ribisi) fall in and out of love in a shack they share with her young brother (Eli Marienthal) in the Louisiana bayou.
Director
Jesse Peretz
Producer
Robin O'Hara, Scott Macaulay, Herbert Beigel
Screenwriter
Ian McEwan, David Ryan, Jesse Peretz
Distributor
Trimark Pictures, Strand Releasing
Production Co
Forensic Films
Rating
R
Genre
Romance
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Sep 10, 1997, Original
Box Office (Gross USA)
$40.5K
Runtime
1h 41m
Sound Mix
Surround, Ultra-Stereo