Après mai 2012

A.O. Scott, 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. Read more

Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal: 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 ... Read more

Justin Chang, Variety: Made with the bittersweet clarity of hindsight and the assurance of a director in peak form, Something in the Air is Olivier Assayas' wise and wistful memory-piece on the revolutionary fervor that suffused his young adulthood. Read more

A.A. Dowd, AV Club: The film often plays like a nostalgic doodle, gliding aimlessly from one classic-rock-scored encounter to another. But then, that meandering quality is part of the appeal ... Read more

Bill Goodykoontz, Arizona Republic: Every kid believes the world around him is changing in ways it hasn't before; for these kids, it really was. Or had. Read more

Ty Burr, Boston Globe: A clear-eyed - if largely plot-free - memory play from writer-director Olivier Assayas, whose previous films have veered from the bizarre ("Demonlover," "Boarding Gate") to the poignant ("Summer Hours"). Read more

J. R. Jones, Chicago Reader: The pretty actors and counterculture nostalgia kept reminding me of Bernardo Bertolucci's The Dreamers. This is a much better film, infused with Assayas's characteristic love for the freshness of nature and the eagerness of youth. Read more

Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor: 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 more

David Ehrlich, Film.com: Assayas' "Almost Famous," it's enormously entertaining for anyone who has lived long enough to realize that self-discovery is the only truly radical idea worth pursuing." Read more

David Rooney, Hollywood Reporter: Olivier Assayas has made a distinctive and nuanced film about the much-chronicled post-1968 years of radical European politics, as well as providing droll insight into his self-discovery as an artist. Read more

Betsy Sharkey, Los Angeles Times: In creating a mashup of a Paris rocked by political storms and a young man in just as much turmoil, the director has given us a glimpse of an imperfect moment and an imperfect life in a slightly imperfect but wonderful film. Read more

Anthony Lane, New Yorker: The whole film, though it kicks off with a riot and a firebombing, soon acquires a listless and guttering air ... Read more

Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger: It does capture the high emotionalism of a very specific point in a person's life, where the magnitude of the injustices around you is surpassed only by the firm belief that you and your friends alone know an easy way to end them. Read more

Mark Jenkins, NPR: Viewers who didn't live through the period may not find them evocative. But this movie is about the choices that turn children into adults, and the attempt to balance conflicting enthusiasms. Read more

Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News: Assayas looks back on youth with both the generous affection and wry clarity of adulthood. Read more

Kyle Smith, New York Post: [It] has the aroma of an autobiographical confession by someone for whom life hasn't been overly difficult. Read more

Michael Sragow, Orange County Register: Something in the Air is a splendid title for a one-of-a-kind film -- a political mood movie that's more revelatory and exciting than almost any political melodrama. Read more

Jim Emerson, Chicago Sun-Times: Fans of Assayas's "Cold Water" and "Summer Hours" will appreciate the fluid camerawork that snakes from room to room in some of the most seductive adolescent party scenes ever committed to film. Read more

Andrew O'Hehir, Salon.com: It's a terrific film, wonderfully atmospheric and alive ... Read more

Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune: Depending on your tolerance for nostalgia, "Something in the Air" is either a bracing flashback to the 1970s wave of student radical fervor or a lengthy ride with some singularly self-righteous and naive troublemakers. Read more

Rick Groen, Globe and Mail: A wispy picture, likeable certainly but lacking in crispness and clarity. Read more

Linda Barnard, Toronto Star: Assayas captures a season in the lives of a group that envisioned themselves as bearers of truth ... Read more

Dave Calhoun, Time Out: Free of nostalgia and not overly critical in hindsight, it captures the immediacy of youth in hugely endearing fashion. Read more

Joshua Rothkopf, Time Out: Even if you don't respond to binge-reading Situationist texts or making bad art in cigarette-strewn studios, there's a universal story here-a social network of friends and a cause that yields to end-of-summer realities. Read more

Stephanie Zacharek, Village Voice: Olivier Assayas's gorgeous, freewheeling, semi-autobiographical Something in the Air is an ode to both youth's universal qualities and the specifics of Assayas's youth in particular. Read more