Something in the Air

Name: Something in the Air
Genre: Drama
Released: May 3, 2013
Duration: 122 min
Rating: 76
Cast: André Marcon, Carole Combes, Cl, Felix Armand, Hugo Conzelmann

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IFC Films | Release Date: May 3, 2013 | Not Rated

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

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 122 min

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Stephanie Zacharek

Apr 30, 2013

In Something in the Air, that past—a version of Assayas's own—is rendered in visuals so specific and evocative, it's perpetually alive. Read full review

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David Rooney

Mar 14, 2013

This 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. Read full review

Betsy Sharkey

May 2, 2013

Assayas 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. Read full review

Peter Rainer

May 3, 2013

Assayas 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. Read full review

Michael Phillips

May 9, 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. Read full review

Joe Morgenstern

May 9, 2013

Too 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. Read full review

Kyle Smith

May 2, 2013

Has the aroma of an autobiographical confession by someone for whom life hasn’t been overly difficult. Read full review

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DawdlingPoet

Nov 28, 2021

This seemed an interesting film in terms of the historical setting and the characters being politically engaged (to an extent) but it was too slow in terms of plot development and I found myself becoming quite disinterested and distracted. It is a somewhat thoughtful film, in terms of makingThis seemed an interesting film in terms of the historical setting and the characters being politically engaged (to an extent) but it was too slow in terms of plot development and I found myself becoming quite disinterested and distracted. It is a somewhat thoughtful film, in terms of making you maybe think about social classes and its not really badly made but it just didn't quite hit the mark for me personally.… Expand

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