The year of my first love
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| German title | The year of my first love |
| Original title | The Year My Voice Broke |
| Country of production | Australia |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1987 |
| length | 103 minutes |
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| Director | John Duigan |
| script | John Duigan |
| production |
Terry Hayes , George Miller , Doug Mitchell |
| music | Christine Woodruff |
| camera | Geoff Burton |
| cut | Neil Thompson |
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The Year My First Love (Original Title: The Year My Voice Broke ) is an Australian drama from 1987. Director and writer John Duigan won the 1987 Australian Film Institute Award for Best Picture with this film.
It was the first in an intended trilogy about the growing up of a somewhat awkward Australian boy, based on the childhood of director and writer John Duigan. The trilogy did not materialize. In 1991, however, a second part followed about the further life of Danny with the title Flirting - Playing with Love .
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The film is set in 1962 in the Southern Tablelands in New South Wales , Australia . The 16-year-old Freya, adopted by the innkeeper family Olsen, and the clumsy Danny Embling of the same age have been inseparable from childhood. During the holidays, the youngsters earn something extra by making hay. On this occasion, Freya met the somewhat older Trevor Leishman, a star on the school rugby team and always in conflict with the law because of his hyperactivity .
When the outsider Danny is teased and abused by classmates, Trevor intervenes and helps Danny. When Danny, Freya and Trevor meet in the "haunted house", an abandoned house outside the city, Danny discovers, much to his displeasure, that Freya has fallen in love with Trevor. Trevor is admitted to a youth correctional facility after a car theft. Danny sees his chances increase again with Freya. Trevor reappears during a school ball. Freya confides in Danny on a nightly walk in the cemetery that she is expecting a child from Trevor. In the cemetery they notice an inconspicuous grave of a certain "Sarah Elizabeth Ames", whose initials "SEL" are on a medallion that Freya had recently inherited from the estate of an old neighbor. Danny overhears a conversation between his parents and learns that Sarah Elizabeth Ames was an "easy girl" with many male acquaintances.
He confronts his father and learns that Sarah was the mother of Freya and died when she was born in the "haunted house" where she lived. Meanwhile, Trevor is wanted by the police for robbery and assault. Danny meets Trevor in the "haunted house". Danny brings Freya to Trevor's at night, but doesn't notice that Freya is being watched by the police. Trevor escapes in a daring escape with a car and is killed in an accident in the subsequent chase. Freya soon loses her unborn child and decides to leave the city. Danny explains to Freya about her true family relationships and accompanies her to the train station, where they say goodbye to each other. Later that day, Danny goes to his and Freya's favorite spot in the hills and scratches Freya's, Trevors, and his name into a rock. He realizes that he will never see Freya again.
Reviews
The industry journal Variety praised the memorable characters and their embodiment by the young actors in the issue of January 1, 1987, with particular emphasis on the performance of Noah Taylor in his portrayal of the lovesick Danny.
The lexicon of international films describes the year of my first love as a “ moving, melancholy love story that wins over natural young actors. The film is not only an idyllic portrait of the end of a childhood, but is also a sometimes biting satire on the bigotry and small-mindedness of adults. "
Web links
- The Year My Voice Broke in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ The Year My Voice Broke , review in the Variety of January 1st, 1987 ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed July 9, 2008
- ↑ The Year of My First Love in the Lexicon of International Films , accessed on July 9, 2008
