In 1968, "revolution was in the air" in Paris, Peking, Prague, and Peoria. This enormously compelling look at the international left during the decade since 1967 is at once far reaching and idiosyncratic; witty, satiric, yet committed, as is typical of Chris Marker. Marker drew his material from footage shot by others and rarely, if ever, shown. The subject at hand is how, in the sixties, the "universal standard of civilization" assumed from the fifties began to collapse. The war in Vietnam-that "nation placed at the convergence of the world's contradictions"-was the watershed, and Marker skillfully and hauntingly depicts its effect. He goes on to show the many civilian-police battles throughout Europe; the revolution within the revolution in Asia, South America, Czechoslovakia; the space between the police lines and the union stewards into which the French Left rushed in May '68; the assassination of princes (Che Guevara) and the deposing of kings (Richard Nixon); and those Cheshire Cats commonly known as politicians who cannot explain why what was in the air never quite materialized on the ground.