Arnaud Desplechin and Kent Jones

Published: March 22, 2016, 7:30 p.m.

b'Arnaud Desplechin\\u2019s My Golden Days takes the characters of his third feature, My Sex Life\\u2026 or How I Got Into an Argument, and puts them into new (but also familiar) narratives, collapsing and expanding our understanding of them. Not unlike Peter Parker, Desplechin\\u2019s protagonist \\u201cPaul Dedalus\\u201d has been reimagined and rebooted for contemporary audiences\\u2026 sort of. FILM COMMENT Digital Editor Violet Lucca spoke with Desplechin and Kent Jones, director of the New York Film Festival, Deputy Editor of FILM COMMENT, and co-writer of Desplechin\\u2019s Jimmy P: Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian, to talk about creating My Golden Days. Their conversation also touched upon the state of Hollywood filmmaking, and that most disreputable genre, the rom-com.'