I don't really like documentary films so I was
a little bit worried about what this is going to be. I liked the character of
Anne who fell in love with director Jean. The actress is so good, she act very good and she is also pretty. But I
didn‘t like the main character. In the beggining of the film, he was fine but
minute after minute he started to be weird. He was so stressed and he was so snarky. He didn‘t have any respect to others especially
police officer and also to his wife. In this way she is so stupid and I asked myself
during the film how she could even married him. She trusted him so blindly and
she just did what his told her to do. He acted really careless and what I really
disliked was the he used so many bad words. Maybe it was supposed to make some
fun but mostly, It wasn't fun at all. It didn‘t suit there. The main character
was just against everyone and everybody.
The film has also some sad parts and main
meaning is about director career and situation France. Everything was just
mixed up toghether and everything was visibly on main character. The idea
itself wasn't so bad. But maybe I would choose different actors and use some
better words. Maybe in French it is better and i heard it in French but I didn‘t
understand a word.
This film is just mix of everything and some
people could really like it mainly because of history but I guess, I am not one
of them.
Something
in the Air - Review by Zuzana Morávková
The director and scriptwriter
in one person, Olivier Assayas returned into his youth with student revolt on
the background. Unfortunately youth and unrest in this film are absolutely
boring. I have to confess that I had to fight with myself a lot because I
wished I could stop this film. I have to warn you, reviews are subjective thing
and this one is not going to be positive.
This film is about young man
Gilles. He wants to be an artist. Gilles is involved into political events in
France. He has got an radical political opinion, he reads about Mao, distribute
leaflets and post the posters. Against this ,,political’’ life exist his own
personal life. He has two girlfriends during the film. The first one is an actress.
And the second one is a revolutionist.
He has to make a decision, how he wants to live in the future. That’s the whole
point of the film.
This film looked quite
interested by signature, but step by step it became more boring and few times I
almost fell asleep. It seemed to me like it had no meaningful sense. Maybe it
was like that because, my biggest problem with this film was a language
barrier. Because only version what got was the original version. So the
characters spoke French and I had an English subtitles. The French confused me
a lot, because it doesn’t sound naturally to me. And I had a problem with
understanding to many words. So some sentences didn’t make a sense to me. But
that’s not the film’s fault. It’s totally my problem.
I have a little warning for
people, who don’t like violence or nakedness. Because both of them were in the
film quite a lot. The film is full of romantic clichés like Gilles painting his
girlfriend naked, etc.
Probably the only interesting
thing in this film was the symbolic of girlfriends and choosing the lifeway. The actress symbolised the normal life and in
the revolutionist I saw the political life. I don’t want to be so pessimistic,
so I found one really good part of this film. This good thing (in
my opinion) was the music, because I
think it was really well chosen.
I’d like to say, that it was a
really good film in conclusion. But I can’t do it, because it’s not true. I saw
it ones and I don’t need to see it again. I recommend this film to somebody,
who is interested in this era and this kind of film.
The film called „Something in the air“ responds to the events of the
year 1971 which took place in Paris. At the time, Paris was the police
town in which there were fights between police officers and students
that didn’t take the end. Students naively thought that they cancel
attack units. So they started to print mobilizing newsletters and Free
press. Other actions were embossing posters and writting charges on the
walls of the official buildings. They also wrote the protest of the
young people. In my opinion it’s very wonderful time, maybe a little
special. The french president invited Brezhnev to Paris when there were
demonstrations and it’s nonsense for me. A high school activism is at
the interface and future students are confronted with too loud solitude
of their stormy days. Students want to do something but they don’t know
where they can go and where it should go. It is not easy for graduates
to cope with this fast-paced adulthood in this radical struggle. They
can’t decide what they want to do, where they should stand and where and
with whom to go. Whether Maoists or Trotskyists. The director filmed
this film as a sensual and remembering reflection, creating a mosaic of
associations, flying reminiscences and relatively autonomous, thematic
episodes. The story is loosely linked by the character of the guide,
Gilles, who guides us through the immature landscape and the high school
environment. The theme is shot as a dramatic statement based on a
dramatic, arched story. Its characters enter into conflicts and in
overcoming obstacles, the characters gradually change. I don’t like this
type of film because I’m not interested in this kind of film. The film
was difficult from the point of view of the language barrier for me.
I warmly recommend this film to people who are interested in this issue.
Something in the Air Review by Lucie Zimova
I warmly recommend this film to people who are interested in this issue.
