My Golden Days

Name: My Golden Days
Genre: Drama
Released: March 18, 2016
Duration: 123 min
Rating: 87
Cast: Cécile Garcia-Fogel, Dinara Drukarova, Lou Roy-Lecollinet, Mathieu Amalric, Quentin Dolmaire

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Magnolia Pictures | Release Date: March 18, 2016 | Not Rated

Starring: Cécile Garcia-Fogel, Dinara Drukarova, Lou Roy-Lecollinet, Mathieu Amalric, Quentin Dolmaire

Summary: Arnaud Desplechin returns to the world of My Sex Life, or … How I Got Into an Argument with My Golden Days, the continued story of Paul Dédalus (Mathieu Amalric), now an anthropologist preparing to leave Tajikistan. Reflecting on his life, he has a series of flashbacks starting from his childhood in Roubaix, his mother's attacks of madness,Arnaud Desplechin returns to the world of My Sex Life, or … How I Got Into an Argument with My Golden Days, the continued story of Paul Dédalus (Mathieu Amalric), now an anthropologist preparing to leave Tajikistan. Reflecting on his life, he has a series of flashbacks starting from his childhood in Roubaix, his mother's attacks of madness, his father’s alienating depression. He remembers a student trip to the USSR, where a clandestine mission led him to offer up his own identity for a young Russian, whom he considered a phantom twin for the remainder of his life. He remembers university life, and returning to his hometown to party with his sister and her best friend, his shifting circle of friends and their casual betrayals. And most of all he remembers Esther, the beautiful, rude, haughty soul and love of his life. [Magnolia Pictures]… Expand

Director: Arnaud Desplechin

Genre(s): Drama

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 123 min

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Kenneth Turan

Mar 17, 2016

Film has always been especially effective it portraying what it can feel like, what it can mean to be in love, and My Golden Days is right up there with the best of them. Read full review

Blake Goble

Mar 16, 2016

Arnaud Desplechin delivers a thrilling reminiscence that romanticizes and believes in youth’s ungraceful but intense splendors. Read full review

Danny King

Mar 15, 2016

There is serious pain in this movie — pain that endures throughout the years — but also a sincere love for life lived, and life remembered. Read full review

Peter Travers

Mar 18, 2016

Yes, it's in French with English subtitles. Don't worry. Nothing gets lost in translation as this coming-of-age tale brims over with humor, heartbreak and ravishing romance. Read full review

Bill Goodykoontz

Apr 14, 2016

The easiest way to describe My Golden Days is as a coming-of-age romance, but Arnaud Desplechin’s film, with its memories and carefully nursed grudges and moments of heartbreak and betrayal, feels weightier than that. Read full review

Kimberley Jones

Apr 6, 2016

Maybe a dare to Desplechin, in fact: Next time, more Esther, less Paul. She’s still got stories to be told. Read full review

Movie Nation Roger Moore

Mar 15, 2016

As a stand-alone film it flirts with utter incoherence. Read full review

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LordlyP

Apr 28, 2016

This is an amazing film from the great French Director Arnaud Desplechin. In his evolving, intertwining body of work, often the same or similar characters appear--played by the roughly the same repertory company of world-class actors, often playing different characters in different films.This is an amazing film from the great French Director Arnaud Desplechin. In his evolving, intertwining body of work, often the same or similar characters appear--played by the roughly the same repertory company of world-class actors, often playing different characters in different films. In My Golden Days, Desplechin regular Mathieu Almaric plays the central character, although much of the film another actor plays the flashback recollection of his earlier history. It is a deep, emotional, moving, yet funny tale of great psychological sphistication, as are all of Desplechin's films. For my money, My Golden Days is one of the very best films of the year!… Expand

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EpicLadySponge

Apr 24, 2016

It comes to play that these people have never seen any great film? I think not. My Golden Days is a golden bar. Even better, it shines like one and it is also a collector's keepers.

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LeZee

Dec 14, 2016

Being young, having a beautiful girlfriend and other things that had done!

They say its a prequel to the 1996 film 'My Sex Life' that I haven't seen, but this looked good and its not. I'm not sure how much one has to be familiar with the original film, though it does not matter much I thinkBeing young, having a beautiful girlfriend and other things that had done!

They say its a prequel to the 1996 film 'My Sex Life' that I haven't seen, but this looked good and its not. I'm not sure how much one has to be familiar with the original film, though it does not matter much I think since it is a prequel. Because everything starts here and follows there. So I saw it, and I wanted to like it, but not fully impressed. The story was told in chapters. The opening was like some kind of a spy thriller, but soon when the episode 'Esther' begins, it turned into a romance drama.

A man who has been investigated when another person with the same identity was found. So he reveals his school day's events, followed by his first girlfriend and complication surrounding it he had faced. That, how he had won her over the older boys and about his close friend, till leaving them behind to work in the central Asia. Mostly it is a love story with some twists in the affair, but how it all ends still remains mystery even after the narration ended.

The issue is it is not detailing anything, just reveals events of a youngster's romance life. Particularly the end was not good. So I think that's why I need to see the first film, resuming the narration could continue from where this one concluded. I leave (_b_l_a_n_k__s_p_a_c_e_) till I saw that and update this review, if I change my stance over this one. Even if I didn't like, still I would update it.

Meanwhile back to the review; it is like a French version of 'Flashbacks of a Fool'. Technically, there's no fault in this, only the screenplay did not convince me. The actors were so good, no doubt its a well made film that some people would enjoy it and I hope you are one of those.

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Ephesian

Mar 30, 2016

Slow, repetitious, and narcissistic: the narrative threads are lost early on in the director's attachment to the young stars who play Paul and Esther. She, at least, has an expressive face and plausible confusions; he is a handsome, baby cheeked cipher for the director's fantasy of anSlow, repetitious, and narcissistic: the narrative threads are lost early on in the director's attachment to the young stars who play Paul and Esther. She, at least, has an expressive face and plausible confusions; he is a handsome, baby cheeked cipher for the director's fantasy of an intense, intellectual youth. His teacher and mentor is almost insultingly cartooned as the wise older woman anthropologist, black and all knowing. the worst sort of French cinema!… Expand

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