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Ask individuals from all walks of life the same question and you’ll get responses that reflect both universal truths and the staggering diversity of experience. This is the basic premise behind Pietro Marcello, Francesco Munzi, and Alice Rohrwacher’s Futura—an inquiry into Italian youth’s attitudes about the future, having its premiere theatrical run at Metrograph—but they’re not the first to have the idea, as this accompanying retrospective demonstrates. The questions vary—“Can a person act sincerely in front of a camera?” in 1961’s Chronicle of a Summer; “Are you happy?” in 1968’s Inquiring Nuns—and the answers are just as unexpected as humans tend to be. Films that, with a simple set-up, reveal the vast complexity of humanity.