'Something in the Air' shows that revolutionaries like comforts as much as the ruling class

'Something' shows director Olivier Assayas's sympathy with the movie's would-be revolutionary.

By Peter Rainer,?Film critic / May 3, 2013

'Something in the Air' is directed by Olivier Assayas.

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Olivier Assayas?s ?Something in the Air? is set in 1971, three years after the barricade-busting student-led political riots in suburban Paris. Gilles (Cl?ment M?tayer) is 17 ? the same age Assayas was at that time ? and the film benefits from the director?s deep-held simpatico with this would-be revolutionary. Gilles?s eventual retreat, with his firebrand girlfriend (Lola Cr?ton), to a life of summer bohemianism in an Italian villa is both ironic and welcome.

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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. Grade: B (Unrated.)

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