"I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians"
Idealistic theatre-maker discovers that not everyone wants to be reminded of Romania’s kick-off of the Holocaust.
140'
Romania
IFFR 2019
Paris, 1979. Young and innocent Rose (Galatea Bellugi) and Michel are living their first love story to the fullest. Their haunt is Le Palace, the
hippest club in town where artists, celebrities and freaks feast and
dance the night away. There they meet Lucille (Isabelle Huppert) and
Herbert, a rich, decadent, bourgeois couple who suck them into a bizarre love
square.
Une jeunesse dorée is once again autobiographical and a spiritual sequel to Ionesco’s first feature My Little Princess (2011) which also starred Huppert. She recreates the glitzy, wild parties of her youth and delivers an eerie, fur-and-velvet-upholstered coming-of-age story where the young are enlightened, tried out and consumed by wolf-like adults. Graced with the sexiness of 1960s Brigitte Bardot and the kitschy appeal of Mae West, actress Galatea Bellugi is dressed fashionably and in sheep’s clothing in this fairy tale written with lipstick traces and make-up.
IFFR 2019
- 111'
- France
- 2018
- Director
- Eva Ionesco
- Premiere
- International premiere
- Countries of production
- France, Belgium
- Year
- 2018
- Festival Edition
- IFFR 2019
- Length
- 111'
- Medium
- DCP
- International title
- A Golden Youth
- Language
- French
- Producers
- Marie-Jeanne Pascal, Mélita Toscan Du Plantier, Genevieve Lemal, Damien Couvreur, Julien Rouch
- Production Companies
- Macassar Productions, Scope Pictures, Diligence Films
- Sales
- Be For Films
- Screenplay
- Eva Ionesco, Simon Liberati
- Cinematography
- Agnès Godard
- Editor
- Basile Belkhiri, Julie Dupré
- Production Design
- Katia Wyszkop
- Sound Design
- Paul Maernoud, Ingrid Ralet, Olivier Guillaume
- Cast
- Isabelle Huppert, Galatéa Bellugi, Melvil Poupaud, Lukas Ionesco, Alain Fabien Delon, Nassim Guizani, Judith Zins
- Director
- Eva Ionesco
- Premiere
- International premiere
- Countries of production
- France, Belgium
- Year
- 2018
- Festival Edition
- IFFR 2019
- Length
- 111'
- Medium
- DCP
- International title
- A Golden Youth
- Language
- French
- Producers
- Marie-Jeanne Pascal, Mélita Toscan Du Plantier, Genevieve Lemal, Damien Couvreur, Julien Rouch
- Production Companies
- Macassar Productions, Scope Pictures, Diligence Films
- Sales
- Be For Films
- Screenplay
- Eva Ionesco, Simon Liberati
- Cinematography
- Agnès Godard
- Editor
- Basile Belkhiri, Julie Dupré
- Production Design
- Katia Wyszkop
- Sound Design
- Paul Maernoud, Ingrid Ralet, Olivier Guillaume
- Cast
- Isabelle Huppert, Galatéa Bellugi, Melvil Poupaud, Lukas Ionesco, Alain Fabien Delon, Nassim Guizani, Judith Zins
Programme IFFR 2019
Voices Main Programme
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469'
Italy
IFFR 2019
Belmonte
At the age of 43, painter Javier Belmonte can no longer camouflage his fear of life and insecurity with bohemian bravura.
75'
Uruguay
IFFR 2019