Something in the Air
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- Starring: André Marcon, Carole Combes, Cl, Felix Armand, Hugo Conzelmann, India Menuez, L, Lola Créton, Martin Loizillon, Mathias Renou
- Summary: In the months after the heady weeks of May ’68, a group of young people search for a way to continue the revolution believed to be just beginning. [IFC Films]
- Director: Olivier Assayas
- Genre(s): Drama
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100In Something in the Air, that past—a version of Assayas's own—is rendered in visuals so specific and evocative, it's perpetually alive.
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100This is a beautifully crafted work and an acute evocation of its period both in look and attitude, and it’s no less deeply absorbing for being somewhat muted in tone.
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90Assayas has such a steady hand as a director, he knows precisely how to let all of Gilles' inner angst play out. His nostalgia for those past days can be felt in the affection and forgiving way the indiscretions of youth are portrayed.
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75Assayas doesn’t bring out the fiery best in this material, but he’s smart enough to know that revolutionaries like their comforts as much as the ruling class does.
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75Something in the Air, is the latest screen portrait of an artist as a young man. It's a good one too, rich and assured, even if writer-director Olivier Assayas is more successful at creating atmosphere than at making his romanticized younger self a three-dimensional being.
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70Too bad it isn't more engaging — and dramatic — than it is, but this new film, in French with English subtitles, is still worth seeing for what it says of the turbulent state of France in the early 1970s, when Mr. Assayas was a high-school student in Paris, and of the zigzag pursuit—of painting, beautiful girls and independence from a demanding father—that finally culminated in his becoming the filmmaker he was meant to be.
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38Has the aroma of an autobiographical confession by someone for whom life hasn’t been overly difficult.
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