Golden Braid is a character piece about an antique store owner who specializes in restoring and repairing clocks. He chose this life  in part because of his belief that clocks are a link to a past that fascinates him.

He buys a large cabinet to repair and sell, and finds a braid of golden hair hidden in a secret door. He begins to imagine who the hair belonged to, and the hair becomes a second girlfriend. That strains his real relationship with his married girlfriend, and matters get even worse when she asks him how many women he has had, and doesn't like the answer.

There is nothing wrong with the performances in this project, but the pacing is deliberate, the scenes take place mostly in dark rooms, there is little action, and much screen time is taken up showing the movement of clockworks.

Our Grade:

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C-

Competent, but assuredly not my sort of film.