To the frivolous years that will eventually part ways

After watching "After May", my first impression was that I remembered Bertolucci's "Dream of Paris", which also talked about the cruel youth experienced by literary and artistic youth in the torrent of May in France. French, especially as a film critic of Cahiers du Cinéma, an elite magazine that contributed opinion leaders such as Godard and Truffaut to the storm of the year, Assayas is better able to grasp the pulse of history, because he is Participants and inheritors of those exciting years.
Bertolucci used "Dream of Paris" to show the isolation, avant-garde, wildness and illusory beauty of the cinephile youth in the trend of the times. In "After May", Assayas selected the entire group of young artists and radical intellectuals to restore the great revolution initiated by film youth, students and progressive artists. , but Assayas has reservations. He fixed the story in the choice of the characters when they left the center of the vortex and stood at a new crossroads, leaving infinite possibilities.
Fu Dong asked the staff of the "Cinema Manual" to still follow the new wave of the older generation and inherit their spirit and way of thinking. Although Assayas no longer writes articles for the manual, his films are still in line with the Bazins. Feedback, using movies to embed movies, and discussing the past and present lives of movies through dialogues between characters, these characteristics are strongly reflected in "After May" and in the previous pure fanatic works like "Blurry Tribulation". came out. The guys honed in the "Cinema Manual" are all real movie idiots, and all of them are historical reflectors and cultural inheritors with good self-discipline.

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