Something in the Air

The year is 1971, the city is Paris, and the Molotov-chucking kids are not all right. With its wistful nostalgia and grunge-glamour take on the era, Olivier Assayas’s latest could be chalked up as Cold Water meets Carlos. But in reality, this may be the consummate Assayas movie, with a career’s worth of themes distilled into one aching drama.