Although I love the original colors on this picture, as you wanted a modern look, this is the best I could achieve just using darktable.
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Here are two attempts. Basically using the all powerful LAB module of RT5.4
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This by putting a AGFA APX 25 HALDCLUT on top of above image
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I think some results here are way too nice. Here is an old photo, which I found in a shoebox among many others 
. Wiith a little help of darktable.
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How much time ago was shot?
thomas_age is 50% each ~~ 
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Thank you 
@Thomas You’re welcome 
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Yes, both are quite good. I will give it a go but I ran out of time so you will probably get to do one before me.
All merit to @thomas and @age … I’m just an oportunistic assho… I mean eye 
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Okay, here’s the ‘three little curves’ color cast removal technique. I mess with a lot of things, one of the recent ones being color negative capture. These three curves, and a fourth curve to invert the negative, convert one of those orange negatives into a color-appropriate positive.
For Vintage garden revival, I first had to rotate the image out of the raw processing, so I did that with my command line program and saved it as a JPEG. Here it is, note the low contrast, no processing at this point:
Take a look at the histogram, and note the upper and lower points of each of the channels. What we’re going to apply are three individual curves, one for each channel, stretching it to the data limits. Here’s the red stretch:
Note the curve, lower and upper points set at the red channel limits you can see in the previous screenshot. Now for the green channel:
Once again, compare the curve to the first screenshot histogram. And finally, blue:
And now alls right with the world, colors are back to normal.
This technique also works for white balance.
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I wish I could travel back to the 80s with a color target, so that we could capture that authentic retro look…
I think that image was taken probably earlier. But yes: Nowadays I wish I had captured a color target on my negatives from the 90s…
Thanks everyone for some wonderful contributions! No one has quite convinced me with a ‘modern’ rendition yet, but a few surely come close. So well done! 
I will definitely take a look at your processing parameters and see what I can make of it myself.
Since many of you also seem to like the colours as they are, I have begun to wonder philosophically if it would even make sense to revive it. The mind can properly paint in the picture of the past, right?
For those interested, I believe this picture was taken between 1974 and 1979. In it you see my grand parents’ backyard of which I also still hold fond memories. It’s my mother beneath the table, but who the lady in the chair is I do not know…
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This was quite tricky… I don’t think I’m quite there. I think you’d need to do a bit of masking to get rid of the original leanings of the film.
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