My Golden Days
Golden Days: The Films of Arnaud Desplechin
March 11 - 17, 2016
Arnaud Desplechin reaches Shakespearean heights with his intimate yet expansive new film, three varied but interlocking episodes in the life of his hero, with the wondrous experience of first love between Paul (Quentin Dolmaire) and Esther (Lou Roy-Lecollinet) at its core. An NYFF53 selection.
2016 César Award winner for Best Director
Arnaud Desplechin’s alternately hilarious and heartrending latest work is intimate yet expansive, a true autobiographical epic. Mathieu Amalric—Jean-Pierre Léaud to Desplechin’s François Truffaut—reprises the character of Paul Dédalus from the director’s groundbreaking My Sex Life… or How I Got Into an Argument (NYFF, 1996), now looking back on the mystery of his own identity from the lofty vantage point of middle age. Desplechin visits three varied but interlocking episodes in his hero’s life, each more surprising and richly textured than the next, and at the core of his film is the romance between the adolescent Paul (Quentin Dolmaire) and Esther (Lou Roy-Lecollinet). Most directors trivialize young love by slotting it into a clichéd category, but here it is ennobled and alive in all of its heartbreak, terror, and beauty. Le Monde recently referred to Desplechin as “the most Shakespearean of filmmakers,” and boy, did they ever get that right. My Golden Days is a wonder to behold. An NYFF53 selection. A Magnolia Pictures release.
Transcendent... an elegy for young love and its lingering ache.
—Manohla Dargis, The New York Times
Terrific.
—Howard Hampton, Film Comment
This is what great cinema looks like.
—Stuart Klawans, The Nation
Pulses with life over the course of two fast-moving hours.
—Justin Chang, Variety
[A] rich and literary film, full of warmth and life and sadness and humor.
—Oliver Lyttelton, The Playlist
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