2015 · drama · romance · coming-of-age
My Golden Days
Directed by Arnaud Desplechin2h 3m2015
Paul is preparing to leave Tajikistan, while thinking back on his adolescent years. His childhood, his mother's madness, the parties, the trip to the USSR where he lost his virginity, the friend who betrayed him and the love of his life.
Our read: My Golden Days (2015) reads as a neutral, kinetic, grounded drama · romance · coming-of-age entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Neutral, kinetic, measured drama / romance, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
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