Carole Combes

Filmmaker Olivier Assayas was about the same age as protagonist Gilles (Clément Métayer) in 1971, the year “Something in the Air” takes place, and the film is undeniably intended to be read as an autobiography. It’s two hours of Assayas recreating that culturally turbulent time in France’s recent history—the period following the May 1968 revolution […]