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My Golden Days

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A middle-aged anthropologist (Mathieu Amalric) reminisces about family, school adventures, a student trip to the USSR and the love (Lou Roy-Lecollinet) of his life.
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My Golden Years is a complex, well-acted coming-of-age drama.

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Kevin Maher The Times (UK) 03/16/2018
2/5
Two beautifully modulated central performances and an accomplished sense of pacing are undone by the weary drone of familiarity in this lovelorn French melodrama from the writer-director Arnaud Desplechin. Go to Full Review
David Jenkins Little White Lies 03/15/2018
5/5
Don't be put off by the subtitles - this is one of the great modern teen movies. Go to Full Review
Peter Bradshaw Guardian 03/15/2018
3/5
Desplechin's film-making language is always fluent and rich. Go to Full Review
Dustin Chang Floating World 02/14/2021
Utterly believable and charming in its sincerity, Trois Souvenirs puts any bombastic films looking back at one's life to shame. Go to Full Review
Nicholas Bell IONCINEMA.com 09/30/2020
3.5/5
Glossy, and distractingly nostalgic, My Golden Days is Desplechin at his most pleasant and potentially least ambitious, but enjoyable nonetheless. Go to Full Review
Rachel Brook One Room With A View 04/18/2019
3/5
Though consistently amusing, the narrative direction and central themes of My Golden Days are too confused for it to serve as anything more than light entertainment. Go to Full Review
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03/24/2022 This movie eventhough made in modern days gives us a classic vibes and feels. The romantic mood with a touch of melancholy makes us get lost in in it. See more 01/03/2022 A lovingly relaxed view of young love and all that intense emotion. See more 10/30/2018 An excellent work of film-making with extraordinary performances by Quentin Dolmaire and Lou Roy-Lecollinet. I love the elusiveness of her character and the so obvious and intense adoration between them. Such torrid love amid the early section where he shows such fearlessness when helping his 'twin' escape the USSR and giving Kovalki hell early and the end of the film. The last scene is utter perfection. See more john s @hipCRANK 12/31/2016 Harking back to the glory days of French cinema, when Francois Truffaut introduced super cool Parisian chic to the world, "My Golden Days" (a terrible translation of "Trois Souvenirs de ma Jeunesse") colourfully captures the carefree escapades of wild, romantic youth. Everyone is cool. Everyone smokes. Everyone is busy living the life they will soon relish only in glazed-eyed memories. This a well acted, lovely tale of a couple of kids, stumbling through adult weight emotions, baggage and heartbreak. "My Golden Days" isn't so much a fond ode to lost youth, as it is a reminder that the crux of life may come at any time, and can be cruelly short. The French love it, bestowing a slew of film awards as proof, and you may too. - hipCRANK See more 12/14/2016 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 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. 6/10 See more 07/19/2016 Love this film. It's so hard see good movie about teenage-Young adult time of life and this film nailed, performances were great. I did care of the relationship of the two and felt it was real. The only thing i did not enjoy was his child but I understand why is there to show how the relation with his mother and his unt afect his life later maybe if I rewatch I appreciate more . See more Read all reviews
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Movie Info

Synopsis A middle-aged anthropologist (Mathieu Amalric) reminisces about family, school adventures, a student trip to the USSR and the love (Lou Roy-Lecollinet) of his life.
Director
Arnaud Desplechin
Producer
Pascal Caucheteux
Screenwriter
Arnaud Desplechin, Julie Peyr
Distributor
Magnolia Pictures
Production Co
France 2 Cinema, Why Not Productions
Rating
R (Language|Graphic Nudity|Some Strong Sexual Content)
Genre
Drama, Romance
Original Language
French (France)
Release Date (Theaters)
Mar 18, 2016, Limited
Release Date (Streaming)
Jan 25, 2017
Box Office (Gross USA)
$268.5K
Runtime
2h 0m
Aspect Ratio
Scope (2.35:1)
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