Near the end of my golden days, an elegy for young love and its lingering ache, a wind starts to stir. And, for the second time in this transcendent film, paul dedalus, its middleaged hero. Jul 11, 2019 my golden days is a prequel to that picture, though if you are unacquainted with mid90s french cinema, fear not. Magnolia pictures has unveiled their official trailer for arnaud desplechins new film my golden days, which first premiered at last years cannes film festival. My golden days, an heir to french new wave arnaud desplechins new film centers on the memories of a middleaged frenchman who returns to paris after years of. Apr 14, 2016 my golden days more than just an 80s romance. A film of great wit and insight that recalls the nouvelle vagues exploration of young love, its beautifully performed by a young cast and elegantly photographed by irina lubtchansky. My golden days, the latest film from the french director arnaud desplechin, is a constantly shifting catalogue of allusions to literature, film even some of desplechins previous work. Arnaud desplechins film evokes the 1980s in sight and sound, making it more than a comingofage memory. Arnaud desplechin on my golden days and young actors collider. Jul 18, 2018 french film my golden days is an engaging film that focuses on middleaged anthropologist paul dedalus as he looks back on his painful childhood. Set in the late eighties, my golden days is ostensibly a prequel to my sex life, but more so, its in conversation with all of desplechins films. My golden days arnaud desplechin and mathieu amalric revisit the adventures of paul dedalus in this marvelously vivid comingofage drama. A multiplaned memoir with a passing interest in genres, my golden days follows mercurial.
Mar 16, 2016 my golden days brings out a playful side in desplechin and also an aching tenderness. The delights of youth in french film my golden days film. Director arnaud desplechin center and new york film festival programmer kent jones right speak on stage at the premiere of the french drama, my golden days, during the 53rd new york film. Fate, the pensions crisis and a steadfast refusal to accept the injustice of old age have contrived to force law abiding, retired couple, arthur and martha goode into a life of crime. Most of my golden days is devoted to pauls heady, 6year relationship with the beautiful, headstrong esther lou roylecollinet as the two of them drift in and out of other peoples. Refusing to take the loss of their pensions lying down and to fade away into their declining years, our characters decide to. My golden days may be a reminder of better times as far as its story is concerned, but it also shows that the golden days of french cinema arent gone or forgotten.
Does the character of esther in my golden days perpetuate. Arnaud desplechins my golden days brooklyn magazine. Mar 28, 2016 my golden days, an heir to french new wave arnaud desplechins new film centers on the memories of a middleaged frenchman who returns to paris after years of living abroad. French filmmaker jerome reybauds feature debut, four days in france, stars pascal cervo as a gay man on a road trip through his home countrys rural backwaters.
Reviews and tagged arnaud desplechin, cannes 2015, cannes directors fortnight, cannes film festival, mathieu amalric, my. Memory gives the movie a formal frame, but desplechin laces the. Golden youth 2019 international film festival rotterdam. Arnaud desplechin on why my golden days feels like. Oct 05, 2015 the film is the luminescent my golden days, a nostalgic precursor to my sex life and desplechins most firmly footed entry in the comingofage tradition. But my golden days turns from being a suspense thriller to a more conventional coming of age story when the young college student paul played convincingly by quentin dolmaire, falls for esther, a high school student who is the same age as pauls sister, delphine. Everything that is suffocating about french film, in one. Discover the brand gd golden days products on paris fashion shops the best wholesalers and brands at the best prices.
A french director on the mashup of influences behind his. Mar 14, 2016 my golden days traverses comingofage territory that in any other hands might immediately seem overfamiliar, but here retains the spark of surprise. Apr 08, 2016 set in the late eighties, my golden days is ostensibly a prequel to my sex life, but more so, its in conversation with all of desplechins films. It was directed and cowritten by arnaud desplechin who won frances equivalent of the oscar as best director.
Initial reception by major critical outlets was positive and since that time golden days has begun to be seen as a significant work of california fiction. With alex dezen, ted hudson, steven terry, david chernis. Written by terry britten and sue shifrin, it was the followup to their top 20 single talking in your sleep, but failed to chart as highly. A month later it was featured on the bands fourth studio album i hear talk. My golden days opens theatrically at the film society on march 18, closing out our ninefilm retrospective of the directors work, golden days. A film of great wit and insight that recalls the nouvelle vagues exploration of young love, its beautifully performed by a young cast.
The international coproduction of films has become very important for the cinema of cuba and also for the rest of latin america. Official us trailer for arnaud desplechins new film my. With bernard hill, virginia mckenna, sue johnston, phil davis. My golden days brings out a playful side in desplechin and also an aching tenderness. With quentin dolmaire, lou roylecollinet, mathieu amalric, dinara drukarova. In arnaud desplechins my golden days, the audience first sees the character of esther lou roylecollinet through the eyes of young paul dedalus quentin dolmaire, the films titular first person and esthers soontobe boyfriend. Paul is preparing to leave tajikistan, while thinking back on his adolescent years. Mar 12, 2018 my golden days is very much a tale of how everyone is the sum of their experiences. Mar 16, 2016 most of my golden days is devoted to pauls heady, 6year relationship with the beautiful, headstrong esther lou roylecollinet as the two of them drift in and out of other peoples. Sternhell stated that in a weird was way, it may be the most lifeaffirming novel. My golden days manages to encapsulate the gaiety and the godawful of being young in france. Perhaps my golden dayss most noteworthy achievements lie not only in its visceral evocation of the highs and lows of adolescence and early adulthood, but also in the haunted sense of loss and regret that desplechin leaves hanging in the air after its final, achingly nostalgic frame. French cinema has a certain je ne sais quoi when it comes to comingofage cinema. My golden days, set mostly in the 1980s, isnt an autobiographical film, but it has the shimmering intimacy of one, even in desplechins choice of source music.
Golden beauties first class natural 16x9 beauty compilation tits vintage. Writerdirector eva ionesco returns to semiautobiographical inspiration for her sophomore film golden youth une jeunesse doree, reuniting with french icon isabelle huppert, who headlined 2011s my little princess, an incendiary recapitulation of the directors tempestuous relationship with her photographer mother. The thrilling memory of an overwhelming passion, the sting of betrayal, the joy of being young and alive in a world full of possibilities have all left their mark on a paul who is now older, wiser and more rueful than we have seen him before. My golden days official movie site starring quentin. Mar 16, 2016 my golden days, the latest film from the french director arnaud desplechin, is a constantly shifting catalogue of allusions to literature, film even some of desplechins previous work. His childhood, his mothers madness, the parties, the trip to the ussr where he lost his virginity, the friend who betrayed him and the love of his life. As an adult, paul mathieu amalric recalls his past in fragmentsor so he says. One among the many great moments in my golden days, a charming french film about young love, about the beauty of youth, about the best years of. Memory gives the movie a formal frame, but desplechin laces the past with such raw emotion that nothing is.
It is an intense, evocative, and lucid memorial to one mans coming of age in the 80s and 90s. My golden days is my first desplechin film, so im no position to judge whether its a good, bad or mediocre version of the french auteurs work. Golden days is a 1984 single by the uk pop group bucks fizz. The teenaged beauty sits apart from the other chattering youths silent, serene, dreamlike, with the thick blonde mane and large, sensual mouth of a. An internationally coproduced film is one in which two or more production companies from different countries are involved, or the financing has been sourced from more than one country. Painfully french film features lots of smoking, sex and romantic angst.
Its called my golden days, and its a story about the memory of young love. So i started to write my golden days in bits and pieces while waiting for production to start, and afterward, actually, i didnt make one film but two films the other one being a. Mar 17, 2016 so i started to write my golden days in bits and pieces while waiting for production to start, and afterward, actually, i didnt make one film but two films the other one being a. The film is the luminescent my golden days, a nostalgic precursor to my sex life and desplechins most firmly footed entry in the comingofage tradition. Desplechin adds mythic dimensionsimplicitly in the outsized melancholy of pauls travails with friends and lover, and fancifully with the strange cold warera episode of espionage during a. Vintage xxx videos old age porn, classic xxx titles. My golden days traverses comingofage territory that in any other hands might immediately seem overfamiliar, but here retains the spark of surprise. My golden days official trailer 1 2016 mathieu amalric. 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. 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. My golden days best foreign movies on netflix 2018.
The delights of youth in french film my golden days filmtv. Golden days once again features desplechins muse, mathieu amalric quantum of solace, the diving bell and the butterfly as anthropologist paul dedalus, reminiscing over a couple of specific memories of his youth. Though i grew up on john hughes films and judy blume books, it was truffauts the 400 blows and his further tales of antoine doinel that first introduced me to how the french view the genre. Mar 18, 2016 near the end of my golden days, an elegy for young love and its lingering ache, a wind starts to stir. A struggling indie rock band signs a major record deal only to have their album and their career nearly destroyed by the people who signed them. It stars quentin dolmaire, lou roylecollinet, and mathieu amalric. Mar 22, 2016 with my golden days now playing in limited release, i recently sat down with veteran french filmmaker arnaud desplechin, who has written and directed a vibrant followup to his 1996 my sex life. Rent my golden days 2016 on dvd and bluray dvd netflix. My golden days came out in 2015 as a latebreaking prequel to desplechins mid90s classic my sex life.
Mar 21, 2016 my golden days, set mostly in the 1980s, isnt an autobiographical film, but it has the shimmering intimacy of one, even in desplechins choice of source music. My golden days new york film festival 2015 pictures. It is a deep, emotional, moving, yet funny tale of great psychological sphistication, as are all of desplechins films. My golden days is a prequel to that picture, though if you are unacquainted with mid90s french cinema, fear not. Lage dor, commonly translated as the golden age or age of gold, is a 1930 french surrealist satirical comedy film directed by luis bunuel about the insanities of modern life, the hypocrisy of the sexual mores of bourgeois society, and the value system of the catholic church. Apr 20, 2016 one among the many great moments in my golden days, a charming french film about young love, about the beauty of youth, about the best years of life between 16 and 19, the years when one is. Lage dor was one of the first sound films made in france, along with miss europe and under the roofs of paris. A french director on the mashup of influences behind his new.