Eva Ionesco could not shoot her movie at the Palace. But even if it had been possible, the filmmaker would not have wanted to put her camera there since the place was redecorated in pink ham.
Galatea Bellugi plays Rose, the double of Eva Ionesco. The latter had found the young actress excellent in Keeper Guillaume Senez, as well as in The Apparition Xavier Giannoli, where she was already working on a character from the DDASS.
At the exit of My Little Princess, Eva Ionesco spoke of a trilogy in the making. A golden youth can be seen as its second component. These are stories that follow each other, but the director specifies that they also exist independently of each other.
With A Golden Youth, Eva Ionesco also surrounded her son, Lukas Ionesco, who was in My Little Princess and also in a short film, Rosa Mystica, that the filmmaker had done for Canal +.
For this second feature, after My Little Princess who was noticed in 2011 at the Semaine de la critique in Cannes, Eva Ionesco surrounded herself with familiar partners: she meets Isabelle Huppert after her first feature film and also directs her son, Lukas Ionesco, seen in the sulphurous The Smell of Us by Larry Clark.