In the Intense Now

This thoughtful essay film from Brazil is the ideal curtain-raiser for our 68 weekend, weaving together archival footage of Beijing, Paris and Prague.

Salles is particularly good at illuminating the wider picture by homing in on particular details: the woman outside a Paris factory refusing to accept the slide back to normality after the riots; the Czech pop singer who comes out for revolution and ends up neutered by light entertainment. By turns euphoric and sad, In The Intense Now is a wonderful rumination on uprising and its aftermath.