Cannes: Magnolia Pictures Picks Up ‘My Golden Days’

Arnaud Desplechin film screened in the Directors Fortnight section at the festival

Magnolia Pictures has acquired all U.S. rights to Arnaud Desplechin’s “My Golden Days” (“Trois Souvenirs de Ma Jeunesse”), a drama screening in the Directors Fortnight sidebar at the Cannes Film Festival.

Mathieu Amalric stars in the film as an anthropologist looking back on his life and on a long-lost love. The film, which makes use of abundant flashbacks, largely won acclaim for Desplechin, whose previous Cannes entry was the controversial “Jimmy P. – The Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian.”

“Arnaud Desplechin is a true master and in ‘My Golden Days’ he gives us another incredibly radiant, wise, funny and human film,” said Magnolia president Eamonn Bowles in a press release announcing the acquisition. “We’re thrilled to be handling such a gem.”

See photos: Cannes Wrap Magazine Directors Portfolio: 10 Esteemed Auteurs Showing at the Festival (Photos)

The deal was negotiated for Magnolia by Dori Begley and John Von Thaden, and for Wild Bunch by Carole Baraton.

Comments