It's not the twenties: the rough seventies are back

The nostalgia industry, booming in a rapidly aging society, doesn't make much of the 1970s.

Sandwiched between the rambunctious, idealistic flower-power sixties and the festive new wave eighties, bouffant hair and synths, the seventies look like a bleak decade.

dream is

over, because hedonistic excesses took their toll on youth and, above all, because the oil crisis hit hard the welfare built in the postwar period.

On February 11, Paul Thomas Anderson's film

It tenderly tells a story of love and difficult dreams to fulfill in Los Angeles in 1973. An accomplished portrait of that time in a plot centered on the romance (thorny due to the age gap) between the roles of Cooper Hoffman (son of Philip Seymour ) and Alana Haim (singer of the group Haim, who makes her debut as an actress with good marks), surrounded by eccentric secondary characters (Sean Penn, Tom Waits or Bradley Cooper). People who share the lack of direction, except for the enthusiastic Hoffman, who wants to eat the world. But perhaps the world will no longer let itself be eaten.

The documentary series

by Asif Kapadia, brings back to Apple TV+ the soundtrack of a year of disenchantment but exciting creativity: the Stones, Led Zeppelin, David Bowie, Marvin Gaye, Carole King , Lou Reed... They no longer sing so much about love and peace (although Lennon publishes

), but about riots, syringes and sex on the margins.

Raise the tone of activism, transformism and provocation.

Glam offers

, like exotic and combative

;

the coming crisis will bring the rage of punk.

They said that after the plague a crazy twenties awaited us, like a century ago.

It's not such a good plan if the thirty drops later.

And it is to be feared that what we are experiencing now will be more like the harsh seventies, with its energy crisis and its Cold War rather than hot somewhere.

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