The Golden Years

For better and for worse, the mysteries remain unsolved and what prevails is Téchiné's elliptical tragic poetry about unfathomable human behavior.

Every member of the cast... deserved a better, less far-fetched, plot than director John Miller and writers Miller, Nick Knowles and Jeremy Sheldon have devised for them.

John Miller's good-natured picture makes a noble stab at yoking real-world social problems to capering.

With plodding pace, decrepit cliché and a senile sense of storytelling, that this ever made it beyond ITV3's film choice for a Tuesday morning is mind-boggling.