Cinema Releases - My Golden Days

Week Commencing 16th March 2018

Week Commencing 30th March 2018

'My Golden Days feels highly distinctive…The film elegiacally depicts the late 1980s as a period of change and endings, and takes that decade as a frame for the lamenting of lost youth and lost love that has been a French literary trope at least since Flaubert and Proust…The young cast are superbly directed and very affecting…My Golden Days helps to pinpoint just what makes (Desplechin’s) best work so touching.'

Jonathan Romney, Sight & Sound

'My Golden Days is beautiful in its thoughtful complexity: a richly woven texture of emotion, affection, human foibles, anxieties, contradictions and passions.'

Catherine Sedgwick, The Upcoming

★★★★

'A mesmerisung tale of heartbreak...The film is an undeniable pleasure, with a wicked sense of humour and real heart.'

Owen Richards, The Arts Desk

'Arnaud Desplechin is such a distinctive storyteller: intriguing, perplexing, seductively indirect…It is about the unbearably sweet and unchangeable nature of remembered youth, speckled with literary references to Yeats, Proust and Homer…Desplechin’s film-making language is always fluent and rich.'

Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian

★★★★

'My Golden Days is very much a tale of how everyone is the sum of their experiences. 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. Desplechin allows the search for lost times to unfold with a light touch, a vivid sense of Paris in the 1980s and 1990s, and a cast who bring freshness and vitality to the most familiar ingredients of a first great love.'

Allan Hunter, The List

'Terrific'

'This transcendent film..'

Manohla Dargis, The New York Times

'This bold, brilliant movie from Arnaud Desplechin... brims over with humour, heartbreak and ravishing romance...He crafts My Golden Days as if he'd never made a movie before, as if youthful emotions were spilling all over it. The result is an exhilarating gift.'

Peter Travers, Rolling Stone

'Arnaud Desplechin's Cannes sensation contains an intoxicatingly realistic portrayal of the intense emotionality, the intertwined joy and pain, of first love...These young actors, guided by the veteran Desplechin, are so effective in their roles that we feel we are watching them live out a lifetime's worth of emotions right in front of our eyes. 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.'

‘Arnaud Desplechin and Mathieu Amalric revisit the adventures of Paul Dédalus in this marvelously vivid coming-of-age drama. Young leads Quentin Dolmaire and Lou Roy-Lecollinet (both maAnnking a superb screen debut)… ushered along by some of the most fluid, emotionally resonant filmmaking of Desplechin’s career.'

Justin Chang, Variety

'French Master Arnaud Desplechin's My Golden Days is a shimmering coming-of-age-tale...'