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Stars: Josh O’Connor, Carol Duarte, Vincenzo Nemolato, Alba Rohrwacher, Isabelle Rossellini, Lou Roy-Lecollinet | Written and Directed by Alice Rohrwacher

Fresh out of jail, Arthur (Josh O’Connor) is a man who seems reluctant to head back to his past, although haunted by his lost love Beniamina. Meeting back up with his rag-tag bunch of friends, Arthur succumbs to the means of living he loves the most — stealing Etruscan artifacts from local graves. Sinking deeper and deeper into his work, Arthur’s quest to find a door to the afterlife becomes overwhelming.

2020s cinema has, so far, been a time of reminiscence. As a collective, we’ve been harking for the 1980s in particular, longing for its synth-based tunes, garish colours, and a future that felt as though anything could happen next. Typically, this manifests in something that looks of its time but clearly is made in the modern day. Instead of a synthetic homage,...

"You've cast a spell." One of the best films from 2023! Neon has finally unveiled the official US trailer for the Italian film La Chimera, the latest from acclaimed Italian filmmaker Alice Rohrwacher. This first premiered at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival last year, where I first fell in love with it, before going on to play at the Telluride, Toronto, Zurich, and New York Film Festivals. Josh O'Connor stars as Arthur, one of the key members of a band of black market bandits (known as the "Tombaroli") who dig up archeological artifacts hidden in tombs around Italy and sell them to a collector. The cast also features Isabella Rossellini, Carol Duarte, Alba Rohrwacher, Vincenzo Nemolato, and Lou Roy-Lecollinet. I Adore this film and everything in it – I went to see it three times at three different festivals last year. It ended up as my #1 film of 2023 on my final Top 10 for...

“When I met you, you were ripe,” says Denis Podalydès’s Philip to his younger mistress (Léa Seydoux) in Arnaud Desplechin’s adaptation with Julie Peyr of Philip Roth’s Deception (Tromperie). She responds: “No, I was rotting on the floor under a tree.”

Arnaud Desplechin’s Frère Et Sœur (Brother And Sister), starring Marion Cotillard, Golshifteh Farahani, Melvil Poupaud, and Cosmina Stratan has been selected to screen in the 75th anniversary edition of the Cannes Film Festival. Arnaud’s Ismael's Ghosts was the 2017 Cannes Opening Night Gala selection and his Philip Roth adaptation Deception was a 2021 highlight.

Arnaud Desplechin with Anne-Katrin Titze on Philip Roth: “He’s as is, he’s absolutely imperfect, selfish as I was saying.”

Desplechin will have had ten world premieres at Cannes: Oh Mercy!; My Golden Days; Jimmy P: Psychotherapy Of A Plains Indian; A Christmas Tale; Esther Kahn...

Everyone fears the process of aging. It unleashes realisations of mortality, nostalgia, regret, and the dreaded loss of youth. The French are no strangers to these ideas, but director Blandine Lenoir tackles these topics with a comedic and feministic twist. Instead of viewing the existential problems of middle-class, intellectual men – the convention in many European movies, as well as in lauded literature – Lenoir gives us those of a working-class woman for a change.

I Got Life! follows middle-class waitress Aurore (Agnès Jaoui) as she endures a difficult mid-life crisis, with many problems surfacing and re-surfacing in this stressful period. As well as hot flushes, she loses her job, her eldest daughter Marina (Sarah Suco) announces her pregnancy, and she bumps into an old lover (Thibault de Montalembert). Aurore must try and keep her head together, but proves difficult as she keeps getting into funny and irritating situations.

Like many French films,...

Arnaud Desplechin’s coming-of-age tale, My Golden Days, follows anthropologist Paul Dédalus (played by Desplechin favourite, Mathieu Amalric) who is planning to return to his home country of France, from Tajikistan. Held by security at the airport Paul recounts past memories and events. From a covert mission in the Ussr where he offers his passport and identity to a young Russian, his mother’s mental illness and his father’s depression. However, what the film centres on more so than any of these is Paul’s relationship with Esther (Lou Roy-Lecollinet).

Desplechin captures perfectly, the all-consuming rollercoaster that is your first love and how the journey from childhood to adulthood can impact these relationships that were once seen as infinite. We see a young Paul (played by Quentin Dolmaire) evolve from a teenager who “feels nothing” and who brushes incidents off nonchalantly, to someone with much more to lose as...

When one thinks of directors behind burgeoning franchises, the last name one would come up with is Arnaud Desplechin, and yet, here we are. Now, that lede is a tad bit misleading, but with the director’s latest, and possibly greatest, work, entitled My Golden Days, he’s not only returning to his roots but the very lead character of his third film My Sex Life…Or How I Got Into An Argument.

Once again we meet Paul Dedalus, an anthropologist played by Mathieu Amalric, as he prepares to leave his latest home, Tajikistan. Told in ostensibly three vignettes with the final narrative taking up a majority of the runtime here, we watch as Paul looks back on his life including his childhood dealing with a broken home, a trip to Russia which led to the proverbial birth of a second Paul Dedalus, and finally his time in college and...

The American Film Institute announced today the films that will screen in the World Cinema, Breakthrough, Midnight, Shorts and Cinema’s Legacy programs at AFI Fest 2015 presented by Audi.

AFI Fest will take place November 5 – 12, 2015, in the heart of Hollywood. Screenings, Galas and events will be held at the historic Tcl Chinese Theatre, the Tcl Chinese 6 Theatres, Dolby Theatre, the Lloyd E. Rigler Theatre at the Egyptian, the El Capitan Theatre and The Hollywood Roosevelt.

World Cinema showcases the most acclaimed international films of the year; Breakthrough highlights true discoveries of the programming process; Midnight selections will grip audiences with terror; and Cinema’s Legacy highlights classic movies and films about cinema. World Cinema and Breakthrough selections are among the films eligible for Audience Awards. Shorts selections are eligible for the Grand Jury Prize, which qualifies the winner for Academy Award®consideration. This year’s Shorts jury features filmmaker Janicza Bravo,...

Arnaud Desplechin’s My Golden Days bears some superficial similarities to national compatriots Eric Rohmer and Olivier Assayas, two directors who tend to make films about beautiful, young, artistic people going through tough times that results from some combination of inner conflict, government, and the sensibilities of other, equally fashionable people. Of course, these directors aren’t especially alike; Rohmer is concerned with the way a person’s desires and actions — or their ideas and realities — may conflict, particularly in concerns of (heterosexual) love; Assayas’ characters drift apart and float together through means largely outside their control, or at least through means incident rather than integral to their decisions. (His protagonists are generally undone by loneliness and isolation, whereas Rohmer’s encounter trouble when they interact with one another.) My Golden Days contains much of Rohmer’s hapless romance and Assayas’ internal depression, but it is temporally expansive and deploys...

Arnaud Desplechin shows off Film4Climate bracelet from Anne-Katrin Titze Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze

Brian De Palma, Wes Anderson, De Palma directors Noah Baumbach and Jake Paltrow, along with Hitchcock/Truffaut and Festival Director Kent Jones, joined Arnaud Desplechin on the red carpet of the New York Film Festival North American premiere of My Golden Days (Trois Souvenirs De Ma Jeunesse) at Alice Tully Hall for a boys on film moment.

Roman Polanski's Tess d'Urbervilles, a Chekhovian scene, François Truffaut's autobiographical Mississippi Mermaid, Strindberg in Paris, and a theory from our previous conversation including the Under Capricorn complex come into play in our conversation.

Desplechin hero Paul Dédalus (Mathieu Amalric)

Paul Dédalus is Mathieu Amalric in adult form and a teenage Paul (Quentin Dolmaire) has always had an affinity for plaid. Fabric samples are everywhere in Esther's (Lou Roy-Lecollinet) family home and a great big green neon sign in...

Arnaud Desplechin of My Golden Days (Trois Souvenirs De Ma Jeunesse) directs Anne-Katrin Titze Photo: Sara Sampson

Mathieu Amalric, André Dussollier, Lou Roy-Lecollinet, Quentin Dolmaire, Antoine Bui, Cécile Garcia-Fogel, Olivier Rabourdin, Irina Vavilova, Françoise Lebrun, Dinara Drukarova, Raphaël Cohen and Lily Taieb make My Golden Days burst with life.

How André Dussollier becomes a smiling Ernst Lubitsch devil out of Heaven Can Wait, location scouting in Roubaix, green Alfred Hitchcock scissors, New York Film Festival director Kent Jones's Hitchcock/Truffaut, Chekhov's Uncle Vanya, and Roman Polanski's Tess d'Urbervilles became part of my animated conversation with Arnaud.

Dédalus (Mathieu Amalric) questioned by agent (André Dussollier)

We spoke about François Truffaut's Mississippi Mermaid (La Sirène Du Mississipi), Esther’s siren song and Paul’s knightly mourning, how Stanley Cavell and John Ford make for a good epilogue, and why Arnaud no longer writes small talk but does dance choreography.

"Arnaud Desplechin’s autobiographical My Golden Days is the sequel to his 1996 film, My Sex Life… or How I Got Into an Argument," notes Stephen Holden in the New York Times. "His middle-aged stand-in, Paul Dedalus (Mathieu Amalric), looks back to his emotionally turbulent youth (Quentin Dolmaire plays the young Paul) growing up with a suicidal mother and a depressed father. The most intense of several interlocking stories is Paul’s tormented relationship with Esther (the charismatic Lou Roy-Lecollinet), an irresistible teenage siren. In Mr. Desplechin’s universe, young love is not something to look back on with fond amusement but the pinnacle of life experience." We're collecting reviews and we've got the trailer and a clip. » - David Hudson...

"Arnaud Desplechin’s autobiographical My Golden Days is the sequel to his 1996 film, My Sex Life… or How I Got Into an Argument," notes Stephen Holden in the New York Times. "His middle-aged stand-in, Paul Dedalus (Mathieu Amalric), looks back to his emotionally turbulent youth (Quentin Dolmaire plays the young Paul) growing up with a suicidal mother and a depressed father. The most intense of several interlocking stories is Paul’s tormented relationship with Esther (the charismatic Lou Roy-Lecollinet), an irresistible teenage siren. In Mr. Desplechin’s universe, young love is not something to look back on with fond amusement but the pinnacle of life experience." We're collecting reviews and we've got the trailer and a clip. » - David Hudson...

My Golden Days director Arnaud Desplechin Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze

With the 53rd New York Film Festival now in full swing and the visit of Pope Francis to New York ongoing, here are four more films to look forward to. Stig Björkman's portrait on Ingrid Bergman with Liv Ullmann, Sigourney Weaver, Jeanine Basinger and her children providing personal memories accompany Ingrid Bergman in Her Own Words and Arnaud Desplechin's resplendent My Golden Days (Trois Souvenirs De Ma Jeunesse) stars Mathieu Amalric, Lou Roy-Lecollinet, Quentin Dolmaire and André Dussollier. Apichatpong Weerasethakul (of Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives fame) has his Cemetery Of Splendour, starring Jenjira Pongpas Widner, haunting us, and Brian De Palma discussing his films with Noah Baumbach and Jake Paltrow in De Palma will keep you awake.

The Film Society of Lincoln Center raises the curtain with six free opening day screenings in celebration of 25 years for The Film.

Steven Spielberg’s Bridge of Spies, starring Tom Hanks, will make its World Premiere at the 53rd New York International Film Festival, running from September 25 to October 11. The film was one of 26 announced as part of the festival’s main slate, along with one of four World Premieres.

Some of the main slate highlights include Todd Haynes’s Carol, featuring Cannes Best Actress Winner Rooney Mara alongside Cate Blanchett, Miguel Gomes’s three part saga Arabian Nights, Hou Hsiao-Hsien’s The Assassin, the Us premiere of Michael Moore’s latest Where to Invade Next, Michel Gondry’s French film Microbe et Gasoil, and the World Premiere of the documentary Don’t Blink: Robert Frank, about the life of the fames photographer and filmmaker.

Previously announced films include the World Premiere of The Walk, Robert Zemeckis’s Philippe Petit biopic serving as the opening night film, the World Premiere of...

Other winners include Arnaud Desplechin’s My Golden Days and Deniz Gamze Ergüven’s Mustang.

Embrace Of The Serpent (El Abrazo de la Serpiente) picked up the Art Cinema Award at the 47th Directors’ Fortnight in Cannes this evening (May 22).

Review: Embrace Of The Serpent

Anticipation surrounded Guerra’s return to the Croisette after the Colombian director’s acclaimed 2009 Un Certain Regard entry The Wind Journeys.

His new film chronicles the friendship between an Amazonian shaman and two scientists and claims to be the first film to shoot in the Colombian jungle in three decades. Sales are handled by Films Boutique.

Screen Future Leader Cristina Gallego of Colombia’s Ciudad Lunar produced with Venezuela’s NorteSur and Mc Producciones and Buffalo.

Screen revealed last week that Gallego is to reunite with Guerra on Birds Of Passage (Pajaros de Verano), set in an arid region of Colombia where a rare rainstorm leaves a trail of devastation. Shooting is set...

This week at the Cannes Directors' Fortnight, Arnaud Desplechin returned to form with his latest "My Golden Years." A quasi-followup to his 1996 effort "My Sex Life," the movie brings back Mathieu Almaric, but centers around newcomers Quentin Dolmaire and Lou Roy-Lecollinet. And our critic on the ground at Cannes was impressed by their turns, writing in his review that it feels like they'll be part of "a new generation of talent emerging who'll likely be cropping up in French cinema for decades to come." Now you can see some of the spark that landed them the gig in the first place. Telerama has debuted Dolmaire's and Roy-Lecollinet's audition footage for the movie. For their test, Desplechin asked them to act out a scene from "My Sex Life," which makes sense given they are playing younger versions of those characters. And for comparison sake, this site has provided the original scene.

Magnolia Pictures said today that it has acquired all U.S. rights to Arnaud Desplechin’s My Golden Days. The film, which just premiered in Directors’ Fortnight, stars Mathieu Amalric (Quantum Of Solace), Quentin Dolmaire and Lou Roy-Lecollinet. Desplechin wrote the script with Julie Peyr. Pascal Caucheteux of Why Not Productions produced. My Golden Days centers on Paul Dédalus, an anthropolgist preparing to leave Tajikistan, who has a series of flashbacks that include…...

Magnolia Pictures is acquiring all U.S. rights to Arnaud Desplechin's "My Golden Days," which screened in the Directors' Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival. Mathieu Amalric stars as the adult Paul Dédalus in the framing story for an exploration of obsessive first love and identity. Written by Desplechin and Julie Peyr, the film was produced by Pascal Caucheteux of Why Not Productions and sold in Cannes by Wild Bunch. The film is a prequel of sorts for Desplechin's 1996 "My Sex Life...Or How I Got Into an Argument," in which Amalric is the young Dédalus played here by Quentin Dolmaire. He's an ambitious anthropology student who deals with a fractured family in Roubaix (Desplechin's home town) and limited resources while pursuing an intense romance with nubile beauty Esther (Lou Roy-Lecollinet). All these years later, Dédalus still has unresolved feelings about the affair.  Many Cannes...

Magnolia Pictures has picked up all Us rights from Wild Bunch to Arnaud Desplechin’s Directors’ Fortnight selection My Golden Days (Trois Souvenirs De Ma Jeunesse).

Mathieu Amalric and newcomers Quentin Dolmaire and Lou Roy-Lecollinet star in the story about an anthropologist detained upon his return to France who recounts his memorable life story to the authorities.

Desplechin and Julie Peyr wrote the screenplay and Pascal Caucheteux of Why Not Productions produced.

“Arnaud Desplechin is a true master and in My Golden Days he gives us another incredibly radiant, wise, funny and human film,” said Magnolia president Eamonn Bowles. “We’re thrilled to be handling such a gem.”...

In Cannes the pervasive mood of buzz and business really begs for comedy, and Yorgos Lanthimos's English-language debut The Lobster, so far the best film in the competition, was a much-needed intervention of the absurd at the festival. This came additionally as a surprise to me because I've never been a fan of the Greek director of Dogtooth and Alps, preferring instead the work by his producer, Athina Rachel Tsangari, who made Attenburg. But in a festival whose thread of a theme this year of the intrinsic human difficulty of romantic relationships (In the Shadow of Women, My Golden Days, Carol), The Lobster wonderfully refracts these concerns of grave emotional drama into a precise, gimmick-bound dark comedy. Surprisingly touching, it takes adult worries over loneliness, solitude and coupledom and sends them into a perverse alternate world where single people are punished for their social status by being sent to...

Arnaud Desplechin's My Golden Days (Trois souvenirs de ma jeunesse) is the "marvelously vivid origin story for the hopelessly romantic French academic played by Mathieu Amalric in 1996’s three-hour Gallic gabfest My Sex Life... or How I Got Into an Argument," writes Variety's Justin Chang. All the reviews we've collected so far are positive with extra praise lavished on the leads, newcomers Quentin Dolmaire and Lou Roy-Lecollinet and the "inherently cinematic, the sun-crisped, agile cinematography of Irina Lubtchansky" (David Jenkins, Little White Lies). » - David Hudson...

Arnaud Desplechin's My Golden Days (Trois souvenirs de ma jeunesse) is the "marvelously vivid origin story for the hopelessly romantic French academic played by Mathieu Amalric in 1996’s three-hour Gallic gabfest My Sex Life... or How I Got Into an Argument," writes Variety's Justin Chang. All the reviews we've collected so far are positive with extra praise lavished on the leads, newcomers Quentin Dolmaire and Lou Roy-Lecollinet and the "inherently cinematic, the sun-crisped, agile cinematography of Irina Lubtchansky" (David Jenkins, Little White Lies). » - David Hudson...

The politics of where the top French films play in the Cannes Festival are always intense. So one question: "Ou est Arnaud Desplechin's 'Trois Souvenirs de ma Jeunesse'?" has been answered. Although five of the auteur's films have played in the Competition, his latest (whose English title is “My Golden Years”) is being sold by France's powerful Wild Bunch and is set to world premiere on May 15 in the edgier and more daring sidebar Quinzaine or the Directors’ Fortnight. It "may be his best and most moving film,” stated Fortnight artistic director Edouard Waintrop, who has been running the sidebar for three years. “Mathieu Amalric, the young Quentin Dolmaire and Lou Roy-Lecollinet delight us in their excruciating and glowing quest for time and lost loves.” Powerful French producer and sales company Wild Bunch already has four pics playing in competition: Jacques Audiard’s “Dheepan,” Hou Hsiao-hsien’s “The Assassin,...

Five-time Palme d’Or nominated director to world premiere latest film in parallel section of the Cannes Film Festival.

My Golden Days (Trois souvenirs de ma jeunesse), from French director Arnaud Desplechin’s, is set to world premiere at Directors’ Fortnight in Cannes on May 15.

Artistic director Edouard Waintrop, who has helped revamp the parallel section of the Cannes Film Festival since his arrival in 2012, said: “With pride and enthusiasm, we are thrilled to announce the presentation of My Golden Days, directed by Arnaud Desplechin, maybe his best and most moving film.

“Mathieu Amalric and the young Quentin Dolmaire and Lou Roy-Lecollinet delight us in their excruciating and glowing quest for time and lost loves.”

Desplechin is a Cannes veteran who has had five films nominated in Competition, from La Sentinelle in 1992 to Jimmy P. in 2013.

So there was some surprise among French journalists at Cannes’ Official Selection press conference yesterday when the film was not announced...

Five-time Palme d’Or nominated director to world premiere latest film in parallel section of the Cannes Film Festival.

My Golden Years (Trois souvenirs de ma jeunesse), from French director Arnaud Desplechin’s, is set to world premiere at Directors’ Fortnight in Cannes on May 15.

Artistic director Edouard Waintrop, who has helped revamp the parallel section of the Cannes Film Festival since his arrival in 2012, said: “With pride and enthousiasm, we are thrilled to announce the presentation of My Golden Years, the last feature directed by Arnaud Desplechin, maybe his best and most moving film.

“Mathieu Amalric and the young Quentin Dolmaire and Lou Roy-Lecollinet delight us in their excruciating and glowing quest for time and lost loves.”

Desplechin is a Cannes veteran who has had five films nominated in Competition, from La Sentinelle in 1992 to Jimmy P. in 2013.

So there was some surprise among French journalists at Cannes’ Official Selection press conference yesterday when the film...

With five pictures under their belt, it might be safe to say that director Arnaud Desplechin and actor Mathieu Amalric are France's Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro. But where that pair haven't worked together in a couple of decades, Desplechin and Amalric are back together in the upcoming "Trois souvenirs de ma jeunesse" (Aka "My Golden Years"), and the first international trailer and images for the movie have arrived. Previously known as "Nos Arcadies," the film is actually a prequel to 1996's “My Sex Life … or How I Got Into an Argument,” with Almaric reprising his role as Paul Dedalus, with the character reflecting back on his childhood and teenage memories. Quentin Dolmaire and Lou Roy-Lecollinet play the younger versions of Paul in this film which is highly expected to land a spot at the Cannes Film Festival. "Trois souvenirs de ma jeunesse" opens in France on May 20th.