At the age of 14, every girl only has one. Sophie Marceau was just over 14 when she made First Kiss, and her role as Vika in First Kiss/First Contact with La Boum (1980) was only 13 years old.
Vika in "The First Kiss" is at the beginning of the love sinus. Children who have just entered puberty always want to have some space and small secrets of their own, but their parents may not be able to understand and accept. The changes in the process of the young daughter from infancy to maturity, the misunderstanding, friction and even conflict between Vika and her parents, are inevitable. Fortunately, she had a very funny, enlightened great-grandmother who could listen to her troubles and share her secrets.
The scenes of children attending a birthday party with their classmates in the film are impressive. Late at night, parents drove downstairs at the party nervously waiting for their first-time party children, and lined up at the phone booth to call to find out what was going on. They reminisce about their youth. What puzzled them was that since when the children had grown up and began to distance themselves from them, and even there was a generation gap and a gap.
This film not only focuses on the troubles of children's youth growth, but also the deep thinking and anxiety of parents. The fresh, mellow, gentle, intimate, delicate and lifelike French style it exudes is intoxicating. 14-year-old Sophie Marceau, the innocence, cuteness, ignorance, willfulness of the young girl Vika, as well as the intoxication and loss of the first love, are interpreted in detail and exquisite. At this time, Although Sophie is a little girl who is not developed, and wears neutral student clothes with a hood-like hairstyle, the dreamy atmosphere on her face has begun to appear.
Her height is particularly conspicuous among a group of girls. In the film, little Sophie wears two small pigtails, supports her chin with a pencil, tilts her head, and absent-mindedly listens to lectures, which fascinates many people, so that her innocent face becomes a specimen of the girl of that age, forever remaining in the hearts of the audience. Just like the melody of the theme song Reality, dreamy, feminine, innocent, clear, with a little melancholy, helplessness, loss and wandering.
Girlish feelings, as pure as a dream, 14-year-old flowers, only bloom for one season.
Sophie Marceau's 14-year-old flower blooms brightly in First Kiss. The image of the troubled and unruly girl has fascinated many children and adults, many old men and even married wives.
In an era when there was no cable TV and no Internet, watching movies was the best pastime for people. After the release of "The First Kiss" in France, the cinema was overcrowded. The story told in the film is talked about by people, especially teenagers, and the teenager Sophie Marceau became famous overnight, which has since become a miracle in the French film industry and the pride of French cinema in the world film industry.
The success of "First Kiss" is not only the luck of Sophie Marceau, but also the result of the joint efforts of the crew members. At that time, there was such an evaluation: "Director Claude Pinoteau used a brisk approach to deal with a story of a girl's first love that is actually not new, and the heart of the young girl Vika was displayed in front of the audience with the details of daily life, which was moving." ”
It is also worth mentioning the music in the film, which always appears in some key moments or transitional scenes that need to explain the passage of time, and expresses the Romantic feelings of the French style through the way of love songs with gentle tunes, which plays a big role in the brewing and rendering of the atmosphere. Such beautiful music, coupled with Sophie Marceau's excellent performance, is simply the perfect extreme.
After the launch and award of "First Kiss", Sophie Marceau, like Romy Schneider, who starred in "Sissi Princess Sissi" (1955), caused a sensation throughout France and even Europe, becoming a movie baby, and people vividly called her "Kiss of France".
In "The First Kiss", Sophie Marceau does not yet have a determined look and a strong personality, but her fresh and natural performance vividly conveys the poetic girlish heart. Similarly, the young girl Sophie Marceau used the role of Vika to express her youth to the fullest. All this makes people feel that a person's youth, together with that era, is very beautiful.
The young and handsome Pierre Cosso appeared in First Kiss 2/ Second Contact with La Boum 2 (1982), when his and Sophie Marceau's couples became a sensation throughout Europe and were also popular in Japan, and some media even said that "this is the most popular screen couple after Alain Delon and Romi Schneider", all the newspapers and magazines have reported on the bits and pieces between the two, Unfortunately, the two did not communicate very closely in private, and Sophie Marceau did not mention Pierre Corso in her autobiography.
In 1984, 18-year-old Sophie Marceau fell in love with 44-year-old Polish director Andrei Zurzej Zulawski, and Sophie Marceau only admitted that it was her first love, and the love affair lasted for 18 years.
Pierre Corso eventually did not gain a foothold in the film world and turned to the Development of the French Music Scene, and the two completely lost contact.