UNE JEUNESSE DORÉE / A GOLDEN YOUTH

The story revolves around Rose, a 16-year-old girl who was abandoned by her parents and taken in by social services, and her fiancé, 22-year-old Michel, who are enjoying their first great and innocent love affair in Paris in 1979, at the height of the popularity of the Le Palace nightclub. They are part of the trendy bunch who only live for partying and exuberance. At a party one evening, they meet Lucille and Hubert, a couple of fifty-something middle-class bohemians, who will take them under their wing and turn their lives upside down.

Eva Ionesco made her film début at the age of 11 in 1976, playing in Roman Polanski's film The Tenant. A short time later she was cast in films of the mid-1970s such as Maladolescenza. In the 1980s, she attended the prestigious acting school Amandiers, directed by Patrice Chéreau and Pierre Romans. Ionesco began directing in 2006. In 2011 she directed her first full length feature film My Little Princess, loosely inspired by Ionesco's personal life, debuted at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival.