Oliver Assayas: Something in the Air/Après May (2012)

After the brilliant Carlos, a companion piece about Assayas' own life in the same period of the early Seventies as an artistic youth with a filmmaker-writer father navigating his way through leftist radicalism to find himself. Lots of intense and specific discussions of politics and a variety of secondary characters help to offset the grand set pieces that include a party sequence so grand it has a chateau catching fire as the beautiful hippies party and do drugs. This is no match for the previous film, but Assayas' historical chops are still up and the feel of the Seventies is unusually well evoked with clothes, music, art, politics, and all the trappings.