Utterly believable and charming in its sincerity, Trois Souvenirs puts any bombastic films looking back at one's life to shame.

| Feb 14, 2021

Glossy, and distractingly nostalgic, My Golden Days is Desplechin at his most pleasant and potentially least ambitious, but enjoyable nonetheless.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Sep 30, 2020

Though consistently amusing, the narrative direction and central themes of My Golden Days are too confused for it to serve as anything more than light entertainment.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 18, 2019

The highs of infatuation and lows of betrayal are genuine and acutely felt by characters who are striving to discover themselves while being both profound and shallow simultaneously.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 8, 2019

The details of the story aren't particularly compelling, but Desplechin's telling casts a spell that's curiously thrilling, as the film seems to be constantly reinventing itself as it goes.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 5, 2019

A charming French film about young love, about the beauty of youth, about the best years of life...

| Aug 22, 2018

Using offbeat humor and emotional sensitivity, My Golden Days is an ode to youth culture and its enchanting unknowns.

| Aug 6, 2018

Although it has the offkilter rhythm of actual memories and employs stylistic flourishes like 80s-era split-screens, My Golden Day" is never hard to follow.

| May 17, 2018

Packed with lovely moments and vivid nostalgia for youthful passion.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 7, 2018

[PODCAST]Here's a film with a young, powerful, and complicated female lead (played by Lou Roy-Lecollinet). Arnaud Desplechin should be a household name.

| Original Score: A | Mar 22, 2018

There's no lack of youthful energy and spontaneity, but nothing makes a lasting impression.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 19, 2018

Two beautifully modulated central performances and an accomplished sense of pacing are undone by the weary drone of familiarity in this lovelorn French melodrama from the writer-director Arnaud Desplechin.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 16, 2018

The film is an undeniable pleasure, with a wicked sense of humour and real heart.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 15, 2018

Don't be put off by the subtitles - this is one of the great modern teen movies.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Mar 15, 2018

Desplechin's film-making language is always fluent and rich.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 15, 2018

This quasi-autobiographical trilogy is further proof that AD is the Proust of modern French cinema.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 14, 2018

Impeccably staged and played, this scattershot reflection on the follies, glories and regrets of youth pays affectionate tribute to a world of handwritten letters and payphones that has all but disappeared.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 14, 2018

Desplechin allows the search for lost times to unfold with a light touch, a vivid sense of Paris in the 1980s and 1990s, and a cast who bring freshness and vitality to the most familiar ingredients of a first great love. It has been well worth the wait.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 13, 2018

Desplechin's haunting and heartbreaking rumination on the growing pains of growing up adds up to a story with strong connective tissue that's well worth seeing.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Nov 5, 2017

A sensitive film of surprising changes of rhythm and tone that become constant, enriching in an arborescent way its sense but never modifying it. [Full review in Spanish]

| Feb 21, 2017