“My Golden Days” is the best classical allusion
By GTWV staff
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Mathieu Amalric reprises the role of Paul Dédalus now an anthropologist, prepares to leave Tajikistan and reflects on his life. He has a series of flashbacks that unfold in three episodes (newcomer Quentin Dolmaire portrays Paul as an adolescent and young man). The first includes his childhood in Roubaix, his mother’s attacks of madness and his father’s alienating depression. He next remembers his trip to the USSR, where a clandestine mission led him to offer up his own identity to a young Russian, whom he considers a phantom twin for the remainder of his life. Finally, he remembers University life and returning to his hometown to party with his sister and her best friend, his shifting circle of friends and their casual betrayals. And most of all, he remembers Esther (Lou Roy-Lecollinet), the beautiful, rude, haughty soul who was the love of his life.
My Golden Days from director and part of the screen writer Arnaud Desplechin, reflects Paul’s bitterness about his past failures in love, and takes out his frustration, instead of that this film makes you feel of a spy thriller in which exposes different feelings as love affair with pain, suicide, highs and lows of adolescence and early adulthood and death. Definitely Arnaud Desplechin’s a French masterpiece film, with good taste and very well acted.
