The First Day of the Rest of Your Life

The First Day of the Rest of Your Life

This family is your family

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Release Date

7/23/2008

Runtime

114 mins

Genres

Overview

A sprawling drama centered on five key days in a family's life.

Status

Released

Original Language

French

Budget

$5,900,000

Revenue

$13,200,000

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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

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