Film/History/Reviews ‘In the Intense Now’ and the Clash and Clangor of Conflict By Chris Barsanti / 19 April 2019 João Moreira Salles's melancholic documentary, In the Intense Now (No Intenso Agora) stitches together amateur footage of the riots of 1968 to create a riveting rumination on the glee and disillusionment of idealism.