Trois souvenirs de ma jeunesse, by Arnaud Desplechin (2015, French with English subtitles 2h)

Paul Dédalus is going to leave Pakistan. He remembers… His childhood in Roubaix…. His mother’s madness fits… The ties between him and his brother Ivan, the devout and violent child… He remembers… When he was 16… His father, an inconsolable widow… His trip to the USSR where a secret mission led him to give his identity to a young Russian man…. He remembers when he was 19, his sister, his cousin Bob, his nights out then with Pénélope, Mehdi and Kovalki, the friend who would betray him… His studies in Paris, his meeting with Doctor Behanzin, his newfound calling for anthropolgy… And more particularly, Paul remembers Esther. She was the heart of his life. Gently, “a fanatic heart”.