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Something in the Air

Après mai (Something in the Air)

2012

Olivier Assayas

Lola Créton, Dolores Chaplin, Victoria Ley, Bobbi Salvör Menuez ...

5.8

1,552

Drama Paris, in the early 1970s. Gilles is a young high school student completely swept up in the political and creative effervescence of the times. Like his schoolmates, he wavers between radical commitment and more personal aspirations. Passing from sexual relations to artistic revelations on a journey through Italy and ending in London, Gilles and his friends have to make crucial choices in order to find themselves in a tumultuous age.

	Author	Review
United States	Justin Chang Variety	“The tone of the piece is wryly affectionate but never indulgent; the experiences depicted feel emotionally true and lived-in"	POS
United States	David Rooney The Hollywood Reporter	“This is a beautifully crafted work and an acute evocation of its period both in look and attitude"	POS
United States	A. O. Scott The New York Times	"Mr. Assayas’s method is observant and immersive. His camera moves among young bodies like an invisible friend, and his somewhat messy narrative is propelled by fidelity to feeling rather than by the machinery of plot"	POS
United States	Joshua Rothkopf Time Out	“Assayas evokes the atmosphere so vividly, you begin to breathe in his tale, rather than watch it (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Elizabeth Weitzman New York Daily News	“Assayas may have been inspired by biographical memories, but 'Air' is so sensitively observed that it simultaneously evokes a universal, and eternal, state of adolescence as well (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of five)"	POS
United States	Michael Phillips Chicago Tribune	"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 (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"	POS

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