Arnaud Desplechin
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Meanwhile, across the ocean, Arnaud Desplechin (Kings and Queen) also revisits a youthful past with My Golden Days—a kind of sequel to the filmmaker’s hard-to-see My Sex Life… or How I Got into an Argument, much as Everybody Wants Some has been called a spiritual successor to Dazed and Confused.
Details, like Abel's ritual of visiting Joseph's grave on Christmas Eve rather than the anniversary of his death, or Junon's trek to midnight mass as most of the family watches "The Ten Commandments" on television, are on the nose about the different personal rituals each family has.
First, everybody slumps in front of “The Ten Commandments” on TV, turning glazed eyes upon the mighty beard of Charlton Heston as he conjures the parting of the Red Sea.
As Bennett weaves through a political minefield while also dealing with an alcoholic father (William Charles Mitchell), Whiting leans on Nasir's father, an aging Emir, to pass his kingdom onto his younger son Prince Meshal (Akbar Kurtha, "Esther Kahn"), a pampered playboy who would act as a U.S. puppet.
Like Bernardo Bertolucci's enthralling " The Dreamers " before it, "My Golden Days" humanely treats adolescence as a revolutionary period that is at least partly motivated, though not entirely explained by, teenagers' disdain for parents, teachers, and other authority figures.