Jean-Pierre Aumont plays a young man, who at the instigation of a scientific journalist, meets Jean-Paul Sartre, André Gide, Picasso, Le Corbusier, Jean Rostand and Daniel Lagache. In these conversations about the future and how we’re faring, about art, and everything in between, what’s incredible is the fact that the intellectuals and artists voice their own thoughts and theories. Released in 1951, this film stands as a template for the documentary film of the future, one that would make television equal in drama and excitement to the fiction feature that filled movie screens and stages. Once a cult favorite among rising filmmakers but presently out of circulation, La Vie Commence Demain screens for the first time in decades at Full Frame.