Event

My Golden Days

Apr 22 - May 05

(Arnaud Desplechin, France, 2015, DCP, 123 min)

Seattle premiere!

Friday, Apr 22 at 07:30PM
Saturday, Apr 23 at 04:00PM
Saturday, Apr 23 at 07:30PM
Sunday, Apr 24 at 04:00PM
Sunday, Apr 24 at 07:30PM
Monday, Apr 25 at 03:00PM
Monday, Apr 25 at 07:30PM
Tuesday, Apr 26 at 07:30PM
Wednesday, Apr 27 at 07:45PM
Thursday, Apr 28 at 07:45PM
Friday, Apr 29 at 04:45PM
Saturday, Apr 30 at 04:00PM
Saturday, Apr 30 at 07:30PM
Sunday, May 01 at 07:15PM
Monday, May 02 at 03:15PM
Tuesday, May 03 at 07:30PM
Wednesday, May 04 at 07:30PM
Thursday, May 05 at 07:30PM
Prolific French writer/director and five-time Cannes contender Arnaud Desplechins (My Sex Life Or How I Got Into an Argument, Hitchcock/Truffaut,) latest film is an uncommonly resonant coming-of-age story that mines the breadth of human emotion and explores the power of the past to define our present.

Lusciously shot and scripted, My Golden Days is a quintessential coming-of-age portrait set in Returning home to Paris after many years away, scholar and anthropologist Paul Dedalus recalls three pivotal moments from his childhood in France. Told in flashback, the episodes move from heartbreaking to exhilarating and back again. An abusive, suicidal mother, a secret humanitarian mission to Russia, the sublimity of young love and the wrenching pain of loss make up the memories recounted by the now middle aged Dedalus. Desplechin infuses his film with characteristic warmth and a reverence for the blinding emotions of youth. His characters are at once wise and foolish, determined and lost; starring Mathieu Amalric as the adult Dedalus. My Golden Days is a look at the singular experience of the young, and the wounds we suffer that never fully heal.