![]() Assays is a true auteur, but he hasn't let that trap him into a single style or tone. If the film isn't quite a masterpiece it is touching, funny and worthwhile work from one of the most interesting voices making films right now, one who can go from the near operatic "Carlos" to the quiet and intimate "Summer Hours", bringing each their own unique style. Thomas is at the quayside and is about to take vans full of fish to Brendam Docks for Henrys train, The Flying Kipper. It was uploaded to YouTube on January 18, 2013. Alec Baldwins narration was used for the remake. It was later remade by Thomas1Edward2Henr圓. Throughout, Assayas uses perfect music from the period, without using the same 6 songs every film about the late 60s/early 70s seem to fall back on. Something in the Air is a season five episode of Thomas and Friends. And there's a sequence at a party that's pretty breathtaking. An early scene of the kids battling the cops is exciting, raw and immersive. "Something in the Air" focuses on politics, art and sex, taking place 3 years after the May 1968 riots, as the high school kids of that moment try to live in the spirit of revolution that was already starting to fade into factionalism (some of the film's best humor documents the absurdly intense rivalries between groups who mostly share common goals, and the insane parsing of every word and idea to examine if it was the 'right' thing to foment revolution). I found the film much funnier the second time, catching Assayas' gentle mocking of the over seriousness of these petite-bourgeois youth, at the same time that he captures the sad beauty in adolescence's naiveté and out sized passions. Because I knew not to expect a straight- forward plot, but something much more episodic and tonal, I stopped focusing on the story, and took in all the details, and the mood. This grew on me considerably on 2nd viewing. As if to make it clear that he is coming full circle the main character (clearly based on Assayas himself), and one of the key supporting characters bear the same screen names as their counterparts in "Cold Water". Almost 20 years later, Assays returns to his own adolescence, which he examined expertly in 1994's "Cold Water". ![]()
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