Something in the Air is an alluring picture, lithe and flowing, wonderful to look at, endlessly sensual in its evocations of youth and pleasure.

| Mar 13, 2019

Something in the Air wobbles endlessly; not only around disposable panning shots of well-spotted locations, but whether the students' actions are justifiable or just plain childish folly.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 25, 2019

The great thing about Something in the Air is that the movie makes the thrill of that brief but all-encompassing rupture apparent without sentimentality or even (excessive) nostalgia.

| Feb 22, 2019

I love that Assayas keeps me on my toes and I look forward to his next hot potato.

| Jan 30, 2019

Something in the Air captures its subjects with an uncanny sharpness, both in terms of form and content.

| Sep 5, 2018

So it's not, I can now see, uneventful, but it does feel as if it is, as Assayas's style is so free-flowing and the takes are so meanderingly long. This does give it a ring of emotional truth... but it is also frustrating.

| Sep 5, 2018

Assayas depicts a culturally and politically vibrant era made and lived through by intelligent, sensitive beings taking full advantage of their moment.

| Jul 31, 2018

Après mai grows larger, and closer, in the rearview.

| Nov 8, 2017

Lissom-limbed, dreamily topless girls puffing Gitanes and arguing life and art with bed-headed boys - this is exactly what you'd expect and most likely want of a French art-house film.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 5, 2017

The experiential form of the film evokes the sense of submergence in a time, with the 60s soundtrack swelling in and out with the ebb and flow of their drives.

| Oct 14, 2016

A film about fading out, about how youthful passions dissolve over time.

| May 12, 2015

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.

| Original Score: A | Mar 3, 2014

While I recognise the truthful and splendid depiction, like the characters whose lives are depicted, I found the journey frustrating and difficult

| Nov 14, 2013

Assayas's splendid autobiographical feature is about a young man who refuses to turn his back on the radicalism of the '60s

| Original Score: 3 | Sep 16, 2013

Accumulates a heady, almost trippy power, like the often lengthy psychedelic recordings by the Soft Machine and Kevin Ayers heard on the soundtrack.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jul 22, 2013

So brilliantly directed, you'll feel like you are really there.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 13, 2013

Revolution is less an action with direct purpose than a way of life in Olivier Assayas' heady, conflicted ode to the anarchic spirit of May 1968.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Jun 6, 2013

Something in the Air is not a film for all tastes, but it brings back a crucial part of the last century, touches on experiences we've all had at some time and is performed with delicacy, sincerity and conviction by a splendid young cast.

| May 27, 2013

Assayas films it with a kinetic camera that follows his young protagonists through halls and stairways as they look for themselves. It's an assured film about rocky beginnings.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | May 24, 2013

This sharply well-made French drama tackles an offbeat chapter in history with real skill, although the densely populated screenplay and fragmented approach to storytelling makes it difficult to engage with.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 24, 2013