
The First Day of the Rest of Your Life
This family is your family
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Release Date
7/23/2008Runtime
114 minsGenres
Overview
A sprawling drama centered on five key days in a family's life.
Status
ReleasedOriginal Language
FrenchBudget
$5,900,000Revenue
$13,200,000Homepage
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A layered portrait of one family's fragmented moments across five pivotal days, capturing how ordinary life is punctuated by irreversible change. The film feels like reading someone's private diary, intimate and observant, with an undercurrent of quiet devastation.
Mood
MelancholicBittersweetContemplativeIntimate
Themes
FamilyMortalityMemoryComing apart
Tone
Tender
Pacing
Meditative
Look
NaturalisticDocumentary-like
Structure
Framed flashback
Heads up
Suicide and self-harm

Jacques Gamblin
Robert Duval

Zabou Breitman
Marie-Jeanne Duval

Déborah François
Fleur Duval, la fille benjamine

Marc-André Grondin
Raphaël

Pio Marmaï
Albert, fils aîné

Roger Dumas
Pierre, le père de Robert

Cécile Cassel
Prune

Stanley Weber
Éric, ami de Raphaël
Sarah Cohen-Hadria
Clara

Camille De Pazzis
Moïra
Aymeric Cormerais
Sacha, le looser

Jean-Jacques Vanier
Mathias Moreau
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