The First Day of the Rest of Your Life

Name: The First Day of the Rest of Your Life
Genre: Drama
Released: 2008
Duration: 114 min
Cast: Jacques Gamblin, Zabou Breitman, Déborah François, Marc-André Grondin, Pio Marmaï

Rémi Bezançon20081h 54mDrama

Why we chose it

Some things run in the family. We follow the five Duvals through five big days over twelve years, with Marc-André Grondin and Déborah François as siblings who both won Césars for newcomers in 2009. A dead dog, a first time, the parents’ divorce: the French film them differently from Hollywood.

Synopsis

It’s 1988, in a suburb just outside Paris. Twenty-year-old Albert, the eldest of the Duvals, has the family dog put down and leaves home on the same day, moving into a room above his grandfather’s flat. That leaves his parents with two children at home: little Fleur and teenage Raphaël, a dreamer who enters air guitar contests.