The First Day of the Rest of Your Life

When:
18:30 Tue Nov 17

Where:
Vue West End, 3 Cranbourn Street, Leicester Square, London, WC2H 7A

Win one of 205 pairs of tickets to see The First Day of the Rest of Your Life, a sprawling, heart-on-sleeve soap opera about the emotional machinations of an average, middle-class family. Written and directed by Rémi Bezançon, it opens with eldest son Albert (Pio Marmai) leaving home and mother Marie-Jeanne (Zabou Breitman) and father Robert (Jacques Gamblin) distraught at the prospect of one of their brood making his way in the big bad world. Still, they’ve got their work cut out with their remaining two kids, air-guitar champion and überslacker Raphaël (Marc-André Grondin) and grunge-obsessed mope Fleur (Déborah François). Following the children through adolescence and beyond, it’s a film that studies the special bonds between individual family members with a tender, occasionally wry eye.