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My Golden Days (2015/Magnolia DVD)



Picture: B Sound: C+ Extras: B Film: B+



Paul Dedalus (Matheu Amalric, back as the same character from a previous film), an old man looks back over his life as he was arrested in an airport, recounts the three things that he considers the best/golden time of his life. First was his childhood days with his brother and sister, next was his high school trip to Russia, and finally was Esther the girl who was the love of his life in Arnaud Desplechin's My Golden Days (2015).


After Paul's mother died when he was a child, he and his younger brother and sister raised themselves, Paul was proud of this despite their depressed father who hardly came home. During his high school trip to Russia (then the USSR), he was proud that he was involved in giving his identity away to another person to help them escape communist Russia. And finally he recalls Esther the girl of his dreams, while he studied art in Paris she stayed in their home town. They sent love letters and poems to each other, but while he said they had an open relationship (meaning he can have sex with other girls, but he got jealous/angry when she did with other guys). They continued their relationship for years but in the end...


This was definitely a cultural film. Be warned, there as plenty of nudity and sex in the film. French drama/love stories aren't like the American love stories' 'happily ever after', instead they prefer the bittersweet longing for lost love. The film pictures French women are beautiful when they are free spirited and have open sexual relationships, and French men are smooth talking romantic poets who leave their women burning for more desires. Is this too melodramatic? See for yourself. Quentin Dolmaire and Lou Roy-Lecollinet also star.


The anamorphically enhanced 2.35 X 1 image looks really good for the DVD format (shot on a RED EPIC DRAGON HD camera and anamorphic HawkScope lenses), so why no Blu-ray? The lossy French Dolby Digital 5..1 mix is dialogue-based despite any music, but could work better if it were lossless. Extras include conversations with the director, casting, 2 Pauls and 3 Esthers: Meeting the Actors and trailers.



- Ricky Chiang


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