While a Venetian touch (gondolas, art, architecture, margherita pizzas) certainly adds to the charm of the Venice Film Festival experience, for a third year straight, cinephiles can skip the packing their suitcases portion of a trip and bring the Lido into their own screening rooms. Venice Biennale’s Sala Web has reteamed with Festival Scope folks to offer an appetite whetting total of eleven features (8 Orizzonti section & 3 Biennale College – Cinema). Announced yesterday, digital tickets for the Sala Web screenings (4€ each) can be grabbed at www.boxoffice.festivalscope.com – but don’t throw your popcorn into the microwave just yet. The 2014 sampling of world cinema/72nd Venice Film Fest is only available during a period of 5 days beginning at 9 pm (Italian time) on the day of each film’s official presentation.
Among the headliner items we find Kandahar helmer Mohsen Makhmalbaf’s The President tells a story set in a fictional...
Among the headliner items we find Kandahar helmer Mohsen Makhmalbaf’s The President tells a story set in a fictional...
- 8/20/2014
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
The 71st Venice Film Festival announced its lineup this morning, highlighted by films from American directors, including David Gordon Green, Barry Levinson, Peter Bogdanovich, Lisa Cholodenko, Andrew Niccol, and James Franco. As had been previously announced, Alejandro González Iñárritu’s Birdman, starring Michael Keaton and many others, will be the opening film when the festival begins on Aug. 27.
Click below for the entire list of 55 films playing in Venice.
Competition
The Cut, directed by Fatih Akin
Starring Tahar Rahim, Akin Gazi, Simon Abkarian, George Georgiou
A Pigeon Sat On A Branch Reflecting On Existence, directed by Roy Andersson
Starring Holger Andersson,...
Click below for the entire list of 55 films playing in Venice.
Competition
The Cut, directed by Fatih Akin
Starring Tahar Rahim, Akin Gazi, Simon Abkarian, George Georgiou
A Pigeon Sat On A Branch Reflecting On Existence, directed by Roy Andersson
Starring Holger Andersson,...
- 7/24/2014
- by Jeff Labrecque
- EW - Inside Movies
Something In The Air - 'It's very difficult to be nostalgic about one's own youth. To me, the experience of youth is frustrating.' Olivier Assayas' Something In The Air (Après Mai) captures the atmosphere of France at the end of the Sixties and into the Seventies. In the wake of the Paris student strikes of 1968, he explores the legacy they left to the youngsters following right behind. Autobiographical, all though not stringently, Assayas draws on his own experiences to paint a portrait of a generation in flux - youngsters on the cusp of adulthood, who are grappling with collective action and personal ambitions. The film is mostly shown from the point of view of Assayas' surrogate Gilles (Clément Métayer) and like most people's young adult years, it is filled with romance and rebelliousness. I caught up with Assayas in the run up to the film's UK release on...
- 8/28/2013
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Olivier Assayas looks back at the days following the events of May 1968 – and at his own youth – with a delicate wit
Link to video: Something in the Air: watch trailer here
The son of a movie director and now in his 50s, Olivier Assayas has built up an interestingly varied body of work as a critic for Cahiers du cinéma, authored several books including a monograph on Ingmar Bergman, and directed over the past 20 years a succession of modest, intelligent films. Most are concerned with moral problems and social responsibility in a middle-class setting like his Les Destinées sentimentales about a rebellious young man reluctantly taking over the family's prestigious porcelain factory in the 1920s, and Summer Hours, the tale of siblings and their elderly mother gathering to settle the estate of a recently deceased painter. Slightly different are Irma Vep, a cinéaste's celebration of Hong Kong movies and...
Link to video: Something in the Air: watch trailer here
The son of a movie director and now in his 50s, Olivier Assayas has built up an interestingly varied body of work as a critic for Cahiers du cinéma, authored several books including a monograph on Ingmar Bergman, and directed over the past 20 years a succession of modest, intelligent films. Most are concerned with moral problems and social responsibility in a middle-class setting like his Les Destinées sentimentales about a rebellious young man reluctantly taking over the family's prestigious porcelain factory in the 1920s, and Summer Hours, the tale of siblings and their elderly mother gathering to settle the estate of a recently deceased painter. Slightly different are Irma Vep, a cinéaste's celebration of Hong Kong movies and...
- 5/25/2013
- by Philip French
- The Guardian - Film News
The Hangover Part III | Something In The Air | Epic 3D | Benjamin Britten – Peace And Conflict | The Moth Diaries | My Neighbour Totoro/Grave Of The Fireflies | The King Of Marvin Gardens
The Hangover Part III (15)
(Todd Phillips, 2013, Us) Bradley Cooper, Zach Galifianakis, Ed Helms, Ken Jeong, John Goodman, Justin Bartha, Melissa McCarthy. 100 mins
Here we go again, ostensibly for the last time, and if this doesn't capture the magic of the first Hangover it's at least less offensive than the second, which isn't much of a recommendation. An intervention over Alan's mental health and the hunt for Mr Chow is what sets in motion the Wtf escapades and male bonding this time, but it all feels a little forced and familiar. If anything, the "wolf pack" is now too tame.
Something In The Air (15)
(Olivier Assayas, 2012, Fra) Clément Métayer, Lola Créton. 122 mins
Assayas gets beyond the cliches of France's young, post-1968 revolutionaries,...
The Hangover Part III (15)
(Todd Phillips, 2013, Us) Bradley Cooper, Zach Galifianakis, Ed Helms, Ken Jeong, John Goodman, Justin Bartha, Melissa McCarthy. 100 mins
Here we go again, ostensibly for the last time, and if this doesn't capture the magic of the first Hangover it's at least less offensive than the second, which isn't much of a recommendation. An intervention over Alan's mental health and the hunt for Mr Chow is what sets in motion the Wtf escapades and male bonding this time, but it all feels a little forced and familiar. If anything, the "wolf pack" is now too tame.
Something In The Air (15)
(Olivier Assayas, 2012, Fra) Clément Métayer, Lola Créton. 122 mins
Assayas gets beyond the cliches of France's young, post-1968 revolutionaries,...
- 5/25/2013
- by Steve Rose
- The Guardian - Film News
Olivier Assayas seems to be dramatising his own youth with this beautiful-looking account of the soixante-huitard aftermath – but politics give way too easily to nostalgia
In contemporary French and European cinema, the events of May 1968 live stubbornly on – intensely debated and treasured and re-mythologised. A whiff of tear gas is a madeleine. For wasn't it cinema itself, and the attempted sacking of the Cinématheque Française chief Henri Langlois, that helped spark the Paris uprising? Philippe Garrel's Les Amants Réguliers, or Regular Lovers (2005), showed a young poet, played by the director's son Louis, taking to the barricades in 1968. Louis Garrel played something similar in Bernardo Bertolucci's soixante-huitard swoon, The Dreamers (2003). Before that, Louis Malle's Milou En Mai, or May Fools (1990) starred Michel Piccoli as the provincial Milou, whose family estate in May 1968 is on the verge of being dismembered by history itself.
Olivier Assayas's Après Mai, or After May,...
In contemporary French and European cinema, the events of May 1968 live stubbornly on – intensely debated and treasured and re-mythologised. A whiff of tear gas is a madeleine. For wasn't it cinema itself, and the attempted sacking of the Cinématheque Française chief Henri Langlois, that helped spark the Paris uprising? Philippe Garrel's Les Amants Réguliers, or Regular Lovers (2005), showed a young poet, played by the director's son Louis, taking to the barricades in 1968. Louis Garrel played something similar in Bernardo Bertolucci's soixante-huitard swoon, The Dreamers (2003). Before that, Louis Malle's Milou En Mai, or May Fools (1990) starred Michel Piccoli as the provincial Milou, whose family estate in May 1968 is on the verge of being dismembered by history itself.
Olivier Assayas's Après Mai, or After May,...
- 5/23/2013
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
In a similar vein to his most recent project Carlos, renowned French filmmaker Olivier Assayas returns with Something in the Air, yet again proving his distinct talent for placing the viewer in a particular period, and immersing us within this world unbeknown to our own, as a director who has a real knack for finding intimacy amidst quite epic surroundings.
Set in 1968, we follow the coming-of-age tale of idealist student Gilles (Clément Métayer), an aspiring artist and political activist who joins forces with a group of likeminded youngsters, seeking a change and brighter future in the wake of the riots that took place across France that spring. Torn between his political allegiances and artistic notions, such a divide extends to his love life, as he falls for two women – Laure (Carole Combes), a freewheeling, liberated bohemian, and Christine (Lola Créton), a dedicated campaigner and revolutionary, and it seems that Gilles...
Set in 1968, we follow the coming-of-age tale of idealist student Gilles (Clément Métayer), an aspiring artist and political activist who joins forces with a group of likeminded youngsters, seeking a change and brighter future in the wake of the riots that took place across France that spring. Torn between his political allegiances and artistic notions, such a divide extends to his love life, as he falls for two women – Laure (Carole Combes), a freewheeling, liberated bohemian, and Christine (Lola Créton), a dedicated campaigner and revolutionary, and it seems that Gilles...
- 5/22/2013
- by Stefan Pape
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Olivier Assayas's new film is set amid the fallout of the May 68 uprising and the rebellious antics of its hero recall the director's own youthful protests. He talks about adrenaline rushes and breaking rules
Olivier Assayas, the writer, director and former film critic, is truly cool. He is the maker of some of the most playful, intellectual French cinema of the past two decades. His tastes are eclectic, his skill-set vast: he can move confidently between witty romps (such as his 1996 breakthrough, Irma Vep, one of the cleverest of all films about film-making, or the techno-thriller Demonlover) and lavish, patient period pieces (Les Destinées Sentimentales) or slow-burn emotional studies (Summer Hours). His most formidable achievement is the five-and-a-half-hour Carlos, a painstaking recreation of the rise of Carlos the Jackal made for television in 2010 but mounted with a scope and handsomeness to shame any Hollywood equivalent.
Separated from the actor Maggie Cheung,...
Olivier Assayas, the writer, director and former film critic, is truly cool. He is the maker of some of the most playful, intellectual French cinema of the past two decades. His tastes are eclectic, his skill-set vast: he can move confidently between witty romps (such as his 1996 breakthrough, Irma Vep, one of the cleverest of all films about film-making, or the techno-thriller Demonlover) and lavish, patient period pieces (Les Destinées Sentimentales) or slow-burn emotional studies (Summer Hours). His most formidable achievement is the five-and-a-half-hour Carlos, a painstaking recreation of the rise of Carlos the Jackal made for television in 2010 but mounted with a scope and handsomeness to shame any Hollywood equivalent.
Separated from the actor Maggie Cheung,...
- 5/16/2013
- by Ryan Gilbey
- The Guardian - Film News
There's a good reason why Olivier Assayas is one of my favorite French filmmakers. Partially, it's because he has never made the same movie twice while he always seems to be veering away from his fellow country men to do things that are edgy and modern and different, whether it's Irma Vep and Clean or the craziness of Demonlover . Following the 5 ½ hour Golden Globe-winning epic Carlos , Assayas is back with Something in the Air (Apres mai) , a coming-of-age tale set in the early '70s that's a surprisingly fitting follow-up to a mini-series about a terrorist, this time making his most personal and autobiographical film to date as well as his most youthful. The film follows Gilles, an ambitious shaggy-haired high school student played by newcomer Clément Métayer, who could...
- 5/3/2013
- Comingsoon.net
He’s been something of a critical favorite for a while now, but after making the hugely acclaimed “Summer Hours” and the TV miniseries/theatrical marathon “Carlos” within a few years of each other, French filmmaker Olivier Assayas has firmly cemented himself as one of the more exciting directors in world cinema. And to celebrate the success, Assayas has decided to look back, returning to the autobiographical milieu of his international breakout “Cold Water.” But while that film, a teen romance set in the early 1970s, was a rather intimate, small-scale film, Assayas has come up with something much grander with “Something In The Air” (or “Apres Mai”). On the outskirts of Paris in 1971, the spirit of May 1968 still lingers in the air, not least for high-school student and aspiring artist Gilles (Clément Métayer) and his friends Alain (Félix Armand), Jean-Pierre (Hugo Conzelmann) and Christine (Lola Créton, who starred in...
- 5/3/2013
- by Oliver Lyttelton
- The Playlist
Utilizing Gilles (Clément Métayer) as his teenage avatar, writer-director Oliver Assayas injects his own personal history into the post-May '68 narrative. As the summer of 1971 commences, Gilles and a few of his closest high school comrades find themselves hiding out in Italy following the somewhat accidental injury of a security guard. They team up with other European counterculture types for a life-altering experience that exposes them to radicalism as a lifestyle rather than a high school hobby. Still coming of age, Gilles and his friends struggle to define themselves as artists and political activists, striving to find fulfilling ways to merge their two interests. This being the age of discourse, Gilles and his friends begin to question the legitimacy of art as a mechanism to express their political voices, pontificating about whether some forms of art are more effective in political activism than others. They also learn to consider their...
- 5/1/2013
- by Don Simpson
- SmellsLikeScreenSpirit
The Dragons & Tigers section has been the richest part of Viff’s legacy, dating back to 1994. Each year, the Award for Young Cinema has highlighted an as yet unrecognized talent of East Asian cinema. This year the Dragons & Tigers jury was made up of Shinozaki Makoto, Joao Pedro Rodrigues and Chuck Stephens. I was able to see a few films from the competition, including the winner Emperor Visits the Hell, directed by Li Luo. An often perplexing, but always interesting film, Li’s movie transports a story (three chapters) from the Ming Dynast novel Journey to the West to modern times, and things play out with a strange deadpan distance. While I preferred another competition film, Song Fang’s Memories Look at Me, I understand the eagerness to reward something a little more outside of the box.
Next up was a streak of great films from renowned auteurs Olivier Assayas,...
Next up was a streak of great films from renowned auteurs Olivier Assayas,...
- 10/15/2012
- by Adam Cook
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
Sex, drugs, riots, and rock 'n' roll are just a few of the cultural elements within Olivier Assayas’ latest film, “Something in the Air.” Following high-school revolutionary Gilles (Clément Métayer) and his various friends, the filmmaker tracks burgeoning French political awakening and a coming-of-age story with a keen eye, basing much of the plot on his own life in the 1970s. Gilles wavers between radical commitment and more personal, artistic aspirations while also grappling with love and loss. We caught the movie at the Venice Film Festival and dug it, complementing the movie on its substance and sharp look. In support of its screening at the New York Film Festival, Assayas sat down with us to talk about the way music shaped the film, his view on the Occupy movement, and a few movies he kept in the back of his mind during production. IFC will be handling its theatrical release,...
- 10/11/2012
- by Christopher Bell
- The Playlist
by Vadim Rizov
A recent cluster of films tackle directors' memories of non-American revolutionary student movements of the late '60s and their curdled '70s dissolution into the realm of insular myth. Regarding France, titles include Bernardo Bertolucci's amusing, silly and self-regarding 2003 The Dreamers, which beatified its subjects as gorgeously doomed cineastes, and Philippe Garrel's tougher-minded and more ambivalent (but still Pyt-besotted) 2005 Regular Lovers. From Japan, Koji Wakamatsu's insanely violent 2007 United Red Army recreated the activist/terrorist movement of the same name, whose tear-it-down-and-start-again inclinations ended in self-inflicted death, the logical culmination of a movement so obsessed with self-criticism there wasn't even a chance to attack the outside world.
Olivier Assayas' Something in the Air lies somewhere in the center of the three. It's romantic about pretty young people blathering about their desire to paint and make art (but it's not unamused about their pretensions), and...
A recent cluster of films tackle directors' memories of non-American revolutionary student movements of the late '60s and their curdled '70s dissolution into the realm of insular myth. Regarding France, titles include Bernardo Bertolucci's amusing, silly and self-regarding 2003 The Dreamers, which beatified its subjects as gorgeously doomed cineastes, and Philippe Garrel's tougher-minded and more ambivalent (but still Pyt-besotted) 2005 Regular Lovers. From Japan, Koji Wakamatsu's insanely violent 2007 United Red Army recreated the activist/terrorist movement of the same name, whose tear-it-down-and-start-again inclinations ended in self-inflicted death, the logical culmination of a movement so obsessed with self-criticism there wasn't even a chance to attack the outside world.
Olivier Assayas' Something in the Air lies somewhere in the center of the three. It's romantic about pretty young people blathering about their desire to paint and make art (but it's not unamused about their pretensions), and...
- 10/11/2012
- GreenCine Daily
When fighting their various political fights, young people oftentimes lose sight of why exactly they are fighting in the first place, getting swept up in the intrigue of dodging the police or suddenly having a tangible purpose in life. Olivier Assayas’s Something in the Air follows a group of these idealistic young people, who think that revolution is in their grasp… until disillusionment sets in. The film chronicles the lives of high schooler Gilles (Clément Métayer) and his friends’ involvement in this all-consuming revolutionary fight against the establishment in early 1970s France, in the aftermath of the General Strike and student uprising of May 1968. Assayas’s film is interesting and adeptly captures the misguided, yet well-meaning political fervor of this specific youth culture, but it sometimes falls flat in terms of delving deeper into characters and getting to the root of their passion for their various causes. At the start of the film, handsome...
- 10/6/2012
- by Caitlin Hughes
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
Oh to be young, in love and ready to the fight "the man." Fueled the spirit of May 1968, but set in the early '70s, and telling a semi-autobiographical tale, the latest from Olivier Assayas buzzes with the energy of those looking to change the state of the world, and you can get a peek of what he has conjured up in the first international trailer for "Something In The Air." Gilles (Clément Métayer), Alain (Félix Armand), Jean-Pierre (Hugo Conzelmann) and Christine (Lola Créton) lead a story that spans between England and Italy, and finds political ideals and artistic life aspirations clashing as these folks come of age. When we caught the movie in Venice we found it no less comeplling despite it's flaws, saying that while the characters aren't as well drawn as they could be, "there’s so much to like about the film," inlcuding the work of DoP Eric Gaultier,...
- 10/5/2012
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
Title: Something In The Air (Après Mai) Sundance Selects Director: Olivier Assayas Screenwriter: Olivier Assayas Cast: Clément Métayer, Lola Créton, Carole Combes, India Menuez, Felix Armand Screened at: Review 1, NYC, 9/26/12 Opens: October 4, 2012 at the NY Film Festival, wide in spring 2013 Demonstrations against governments may be taking place these days in some of the “less developed” nations like Libya and Egypt, but in the late sixties, early seventies, the most progressive countries bore the brunt of high physical action most by the young. Here in the U.S. the youths had a point: end the Vietnam War, because if the conflict continued, there was an ever increasing [ Read More ]
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- 9/27/2012
- by Harvey Karten
- ShockYa
Olivier Assayas' "Carlos" was a sprawling five-hour epic about the rise and fall of famed Venezuelan terrorist Carlos the Jackal. While the production experience didn't scare off the veteran French director from the challenges of historical fiction, he did feel the need to reduce his scale for his next project. "Something in the Air," Assayas' follow-up to "Carlos," recently won a screenplay award at the Venice film festival and played to similar acclaim in Toronto; it next arrives the New York Film Festival later this month. The movie takes place in 1971 and follows a handful of politically active teenagers dealing with the aftermath of May 1968. The main character, struggling filmmaker Gilles (Clement Metayer), is an aspiring filmmaker whose eye-opening encounters with revolutionary literature and other radical ideas mirror Assayas' own experiences. While replicating a tumultuous period in French history, the movie also maintains...
- 9/16/2012
- by Eric Kohn
- Indiewire
Sex, drugs, art, and revolution — such was the life of a young European in 1971. Or at least it was the life of a young director at 17 trying to reconcile the state of his country and his ambitions for the future. Taking us along for the rapid ascent into adulthood of a group of school-aged French radicals, Olivier Assayas‘ semi-autobiographical film Something in the Air (Après mai) is a slice of life at a time of wholesale liberation. These Trotskyites look to dissolve the government’s ‘Special Brigades’ and win student rights through pamphlets and graffiti, their actions’ consequences escalating while their political bent begins to wane. There’s nothing like growing up to put an end to youthful idealism.
Gilles (Clement Metayer) is the epitome of boutique rebel, carving an ‘A’ for anarchy on his desk and listening to Syd Barrett while painting. A prospective artist, his dreams are easily...
Gilles (Clement Metayer) is the epitome of boutique rebel, carving an ‘A’ for anarchy on his desk and listening to Syd Barrett while painting. A prospective artist, his dreams are easily...
- 9/9/2012
- by jpraup@gmail.com (thefilmstage.com)
- The Film Stage
★★☆☆☆ Returning to feature length filmmaking after his brilliantly dynamic 2010 mini-series Carlos, Olivier Assayas' Something in the Air (Après mai, 2012) deals with the coming-of-age story of young French student Gilles (Clement Metayer), who is torn between his political convictions and personal ambitions in the wake of the political turmoil of the Spring of 1968. Part-sentimental education and part-road movie, the film aspires to present a portrait of an era - as broadly as possible.
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- 9/4/2012
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
Following two highly acclaimed films, "Carlos" and "Summer Hours," excitement is high for French auteur Olivier Assayas' next directorial effort, "Something In The Air," a politically-charged, loosely autobiographical coming-of-age drama that follows an 18-year-old man reacting to the social change of the late '60s in Europe. Details on the project other than that logline are scarce, but we now have the first look at the film's newcomer lead, Clement Metayer, alongside Lola Creton, who starred in Mia Hansen-Love's "Goodbye, First Love." Lensing took place across France, Italy and the U.K. with the film to be predominantly in French, but with English and Italian dialogue also featured. Here's a slightly more detailed synopsis: Set in the early 1970s, Gilles (Metayer) is a high school student in Paris, swept up in the political fever of the time. Yet his real dream is to paint and make films, something that his.
- 8/2/2012
- by Simon Dang
- The Playlist
#05. Something in the Air (Après mai) Director/Writer: Olivier AssayasProducers: MK2's Charles Gillibert (On the Road), Marin Karmitz and Nathanaël Karmitz (Summer Hours)Distributor: IFC Films The Gist: Written by Assayas, set during the 70's, Gilles (Clement Metayer), is a high school student in Paris who is swept up in the political fever of the time. Yet his real dream is to paint and make films, something that his friends and even his girlfriend cannot understand. For them, politics is everything, the political struggle all consuming. But Gilles gradually becomes more comfortable with his life choices, and learns to feel at ease in this new society...(more) Cast: Newcomer Clement Metayer and Lola Créton topline. List Worthy Reasons...: With Assayas currently on a roll with Carlos and Summer Hours, we imagine this coming-of-age project as in the vein of The Dreamers with perhaps some biographical elements embedded in...
- 1/10/2012
- IONCINEMA.com
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