Oct. 19--Arnaud Desplechin's fizzy remembrance of romance, politics and friendships past is one of the rare nostalgic reveries that get better and more emotionally unruly as it goes. The protagonist, portrayed here as a middle-age man by Mathieu Almaric, guided the story of an earlier Desplechin film, "My Sex Life or ... How I Got Into an Argument. In "My Golden Days" the authorial stand-in is played as a yearning, restless younger man by Quentin Dolmaire; Lou Roy-Lecollinet takes the role of his first love, Esther, young Paul's first taste of serious complication. In French with English subtitles.
5:30 p.m. Monday, AMC River East 21, 322 E. Illinois St. Tickets $11-$14 at chicagofilmfestival.com.
-Michael Phillips
