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Nov 14, 2012 · Something in the Air: Directed by Olivier Assayas. With Clément Métayer, Lola Créton, Felix Armand, Carole Combes. In the months after the heady weeks of May '68, a group of young Europeans search for a way to continue the revolution believed to be just beginning.
Something in the Air ( French: Après mai, lit. 'After May') is a 2012 French coming-of-age drama film written and directed by Olivier Assayas . Premise. In 1971, French student Gilles gets entangled in contemporary political turmoils, although he would rather just be a creative artist.
May 8, 2013 · Advertisement. Assayas looks back on the values and priorities of the time with a vision that's both wry and tender. When Gilles asks a member of a radical collective if he can borrow their 16mm camera to make a short film, he's told: "We do agit-prop. Usually we don't lend for fiction."
In the early 1970s, Gilles is a high school student in Paris, swept up in the political fever of the time. Yet his real dream is to paint and make films, something that his friends and even his girlfriend cannot understand. For them, politics is everything: the social struggle is all-consuming.
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In the early 1970s, Gilles is a high school student in Paris, swept up in the political fever of the time. Yet his real dream is to paint and make films, something that his friends and even his girlfriend cannot understand. For them, politics is everything: the social struggle is all-consuming.
May 3, 2013 · Something 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.
