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My Golden Days

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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.

Status: Released

Released Date: 2015-05-20

Runtime: 123 mins

Director: Arnaud Desplechin

Spoken language: Pусский, Français, עִבְרִית

Genres: Drama

Original title: My Golden Days

Production Companies: Why Not Productions, France 2 Cinéma

Production Countries: France

Cast

Quentin Dolmaire

Lou Roy-Lecollinet

Mathieu Amalric

Dinara Drukarova

Léonard Matton

Cécile Garcia-Fogel

Irina Vavilova

Françoise Lebrun

Olivier Rabourdin

Elyot Milshtein

Pierre Andrau

Lily Taïeb

Raphaël Cohen

Kheifets Gregory

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Rangan

**Being young, having a beautiful girlfriend and other things that had done!** They say its a prequel to the 1996 film 'My Sex Life' that I haven't seen, but this looked good and its not. I'm not sure how much one has to be familiar with the original film, though it does not matter much I think since it is a prequel. Because everything starts here and follows there. So I saw it, and I wanted to like it, but not fully impressed. The story was told in chapters. The opening was like some kind of a spy thriller, but soon when the episode 'Esther' begins, it turned into a romance drama. A man who has been investigated when another person with the same identity was found. So he reveals his school day's events, followed by his first girlfriend and complication surrounding it he had faced. That, how he had won her over the older boys and about his close friend, till leaving them behind to work in the central Asia. Mostly it is a love story with some twists in the affair, but how it all ends still remains mystery even after the narration ended. The issue is it is not detailing anything, just reveals events of a youngster's romance life. Particularly the end was not good. So I think that's why I need to see the first film, resuming the narration could continue from where this one concluded. I leave (_b_l_a_n_k__s_p_a_c_e_) till I saw that and update this review, if I change my stance over this one. Even if I didn't like, still I would update it. Meanwhile back to the review; it is like a French version of 'Flashbacks of a Fool'. Technically, there's no fault in this, only the screenplay did not convince me. The actors were so good, no doubt its a well made film that some people would enjoy it and I hope you are one of those. _6/10_

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