My Golden Days

Magnolia Pictures | Release Date: March 18, 2016

6.8	USER SCORE Generally favorable reviews based on 19 Ratings

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EphesianMar 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, babySlow, 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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LeZeeDec 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 theBeing 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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EpicLadySpongeApr 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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LordlyPApr 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, oftenThis 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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