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Love at First Fight (Les Combattants, 2014), Thomas Cailley's feature debut, is a French romantic comedy you can watch online on iFILM. It claimed the César for Best First Film and Best Promising Actor for Kévin Azaïs, and screened at Cannes in the Un Certain Regard section.
Arnaud drifts through a quiet coastal summer with no real ambitions. Then he meets Madeleine, who is convinced civilisation is collapsing and has signed up for an army boot camp to prepare. He follows her — not because he shares her apocalyptic outlook, but because he can't stop thinking about her.
Adèle Haenel and Azaïs make a genuinely mismatched pair: her focused intensity against his bewildered good nature generates most of the comedy, but Cailley keeps it grounded in something more honest than farce. Stream Love at First Fight (2014) online on iFILM.
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