SummaryArnaud 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 f... Read More
Directed By:Arnaud Desplechin
Written By:Arnaud Desplechin, Julie Peyr, Nicolas Saada
My Golden Days
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Universal Acclaim
87
User score
Generally Favorable
7.0
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Metascore
Universal Acclaim
96% Positive
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4% Mixed
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Mar 17, 2016
100
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.
May 23, 2015
91
The film doesn't reinvent the wheel: it is, ultimately, a middle-class-white-boy coming-of-age tale of the kind that the cinema of France, and elsewhere, has never been lacking. But it's written, shot, cut and performed with such palpable joy, intelligence and warmth that it ends up feeling entirely fresh.
User score
Generally Favorable
52% Positive
11 Ratings
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38% Mixed
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Apr 28, 2016
10
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!
Apr 24, 2016
9
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.
May 23, 2015
90
Arnaud Desplechin’s My Golden Days is touching, involving and very well acted.
Mar 18, 2016
88
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.
Apr 14, 2016
80
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.
Mar 16, 2016
75
Desplechin tackles drama with wildly confident eclecticism, sometimes even besting Martin Scorsese in pure movie-mad feverishness: iris shots, radically different camera styles, unexpected musical and literary quotations, theatrical flourishes, scenes broken up in collage.
Dec 14, 2016
6
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
Mar 30, 2016
1
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 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!
Production Company:
- Why Not Productions
- France 2 Cinéma
- Canal+
- Ciné+
- France Télévisions
- Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée (CNC)
- Pictanovo
- Soficinéma 11
- Cinémage 9
- Angoa-Agicoa
- Société des Producteurs de Cinéma et de Télévision (Procirep)
- B-Tween
- Demarsh-Film
Release Date:Mar 18, 2016
Duration:2 h 3 m
Rating:R
Awards
César Awards, France
• 1 Win & 11 Nominations
Lumiere Awards, France
• 2 Wins & 7 Nominations
International Online Cinema Awards (INOCA)
• 3 Nominations
