This movie eventhough made in modern days gives us a classic vibes and feels. The romantic mood with a touch of melancholy makes us get lost in in it.

A lovingly relaxed view of young love and all that intense emotion.

An excellent work of film-making with extraordinary performances by Quentin Dolmaire and Lou Roy-Lecollinet. I love the elusiveness of her character and the so obvious and intense adoration between them. Such torrid love amid the early section where he shows such fearlessness when helping his 'twin' escape the USSR and giving Kovalki hell early and the end of the film. The last scene is utter perfection.

Harking back to the glory days of French cinema, when Francois Truffaut introduced super cool Parisian chic to the world, "My Golden Days" (a terrible translation of "Trois Souvenirs de ma Jeunesse") colourfully captures the carefree escapades of wild, romantic youth. Everyone is cool. Everyone smokes. Everyone is busy living the life they will soon relish only in glazed-eyed memories. This a well acted, lovely tale of a couple of kids, stumbling through adult weight emotions, baggage and heartbreak. "My Golden Days" isn't so much a fond ode to lost youth, as it is a reminder that the crux of life may come at any time, and can be cruelly short. The French love it, bestowing a slew of film awards as proof, and you may too. - hipCRANK

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

Love this film. It's so hard see good movie about teenage-Young adult time of life and this film nailed, performances were great. I did care of the relationship of the two and felt it was real. The only thing i did not enjoy was his child but I understand why is there to show how the relation with his mother and his unt afect his life later maybe if I rewatch I appreciate more .

Apparently written by a guy who never got over and subsequently mythologized his high school girlfriend. The result is a depiction of a woman who no one has ever encountered in real life, and who is: dismally hopeless without her man, irresistibly sexual and heinously rude to everyone. In addition to a disjointed opening that barely hinges to the rest of the movie are more-than-pretentious discussions further marred by some poor translations of the French. Truly dismal.

I can't say it was horrible but I will say, there were so many hanging story threads and disjointed scenes and sentences that I can NOT say it was a good film. 3 out of 10 stars

This film starts out with some interesting scenes. The last hour of this two hour and 15 minute movie should have been 15 minutes. It was like a tortured junior high school romance.

Really a big disappointment. I had no idea why the New Yorker, the Wall Street Journal and LA Times loved it. Self indulgent and pretentious are over used words but apply to this movie. The director never managed to gain a perspective on his central character who was in love with a very attractive but nebulous woman who could never find her way in life but seemed as though she knew the answers. The character then gets angry with his friend for sleeping with her and remains bitter into middle age about his friends' betrayal but he left her many times and had other girlfriends. At the end though he seemed to treat her as his property that the friend had stolen. The more interesting idea that he gave away his identity to a Soviet Jew refusnik in the form of giving his own passport to another person in Russia was not followed up on and many other story threads were either forgotten or abandoned. The central characters' supposed interest in anthropology and his travels to Turkministan seemed random and were not tied into the story. There is some good acting along the way but please do not waste your time on this movie.

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A very "french" film about two lovers. A love that is all consuming and lasts pretty much a lifetime. This love is one that the characters pretty much never forget about it. There's just certain people in your life that you have a special all encompassing infatuation with. The ending was a bit abrupt but the passion/love was done fairly well, although over handed.

Arnaud Desplechin's latest is a charming coming-of-age story with a whimsical feel and a great cast of young actors. Told through a non-linear narrative, the film feels novel-esque in its presentation, which supplements the film's story craft. Arnauld takes his time with his characters for us to understand their desire, and succinctly avoids rom-com cliches (even if there is a love triangle), and rewards viewers by being equal parts funny and dramatic. It's debatably a little too long, but those looking for a subversive look at young love will find their best bet since The Spectacular Now here.

some of these reviewers, their name is mud to me now

Every scene feels fake and forced.

Feels like a Frenchie .