ARP Sélection presents GOLDEN YEARS a film by André Téchiné France / 2017 / 103’ / 1:85 / 5.1 / French INTERNATIONAL PUBLICITY International Press WOLF Consultants T: +49 157 7474 9724 (in Cannes) M: +33 7 60 21 57 76
[email protected] DOWNLOAD PRESS MATERIALS at: www.wolf-con.com/download International Sales Celluloid Dreams 2 rue Turgot - 75009 Paris T +33 1 49 70 03 70 www.celluloid-dreams.com The true love story of Paul and Louise who get married on the eve of WWI. Injured, Paul deserts. Louise decides to hide him dressed as a woman. He soon becomes “Suzanne” a Parisian celebrity in the Roaring 20’s. When granted amnesty, he is challenged to live as a man again. A Dream Come True for Historians by Fabrice Virgili and Danièle Voldman While doing some scholarly work at the Paris police archives, we stumbled across the extraor- dinary story of Paul and Louise, two young people who fell in love in early twentieth-century Paris. When war was declared in July 1914, Paul was mobilized and sent to the front. What then followed was, to say the least, a baroque adventure that could not help but interest André Téchiné, who in 1976 directed the intriguing Barocco. The couple found separation difficult, and Paul could not take the fighting, horror and carnage. Wounded, he deserted and escaped back to Louise. And thus began their ‘golden’ years, escaping the military authorities who were hunting down failed patriots. Paul the deserter disguised himself as a woman and, for ten years, until a general amnesty was declared, Paul became Suzanne and lived as a flapper with Louise.