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Jonah Who Will Be 25 in the Year 2000

Play trailer Poster for Jonah Who Will Be 25 in the Year 2000 Released Dec 1, 1976 1h 55m Comedy Play Trailer Watchlist
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Set in the shadow of political unrest in France during the late '60s, eight very different radicals and utopians gather to renew friendships, discuss the world's problems and come to grips with their disillusionment. The reunion offers reasons to look toward the future with hope -- or to stare at the present and lament. In the face of impending middle age, can a once-passionate activist (Jean-Luc Bideau), a blonde bombshell (Miou-Miou), and the rest make something positive together?

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Pauline Kael The New Yorker It's essentially a poetic original, simple, and unstressed from shot to shot, with a visual lustre. Dec 5, 2023 Full Review Tim Pulleine Sight & Sound Its characters are constantly individualised, in the writing (the script is by [Alain] Tanner and John Berger) as well as through the performances Tanner draws from his remarkable cast. Mar 31, 2020 Full Review Elliott Stein Film Comment Magazine Their alienation is channeled into nervous verbal energy, winning, bright, free from cant. Rated: 3/4 Apr 10, 2018 Full Review Alison Fell Spare Rib Berger and Tanner seem generally at sea with their female characters, which leads them into all sorts of doldrums, mystifications and annoyances. I mean, how can they have missed the fact that woman's liberation also exploded in the late 60's? Sep 22, 2021 Full Review Ruth Batchelor Los Angeles Free Press To me, Jonah is another pretentious piece in the new wave of Maudlinism. Oct 25, 2019 Full Review Ray Pride Newcity Arriving at one's failure and accepting it. Not embracing it, not ennobling it, but recognizing battles transform over lived time. The world is good. Food and ----ing are good. The rich are terrible... prophetic and post-apocalyptic, even in June 2018. Rated: 10/10 Jun 2, 2018 Full Review Read all reviews

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robert m A small delight. "Big Chill" covered some of the same territory but it was a pointless movie that got stuck in a wasteland. "Jonah" has some interesting characters who have interesting stories to tell about the 1960s. Their idealism will rise again. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 03/30/23 Full Review Audience Member Pretty nice film about a group of middle aged post 68 radicals. The monchrome footage portraying the characters' interiority is quite a funny narrative device. Tanner incorporates the Marxist ideas into the emsemble of characters well enough. It makes it quite a talky film which is at times a bit too didactic. I don't know if it's because the film is that dated, but some of the characters have this quirkiness that rubs me the wrong way. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 01/18/23 Full Review Audience Member Très beau film suisse avec une citation à retenir " vous trouvez pas que Genève est une ville qui se retient?"... A voir c'est certain. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/18/23 Full Review Audience Member I really liked this. As usual, too young to get it at the time. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/06/23 Full Review Audience Member An unforgettable film. Marvelous performances, great script and taut directing. And the sausage of history, of course. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/01/23 Full Review Audience Member my first tanner. saw it more than twenty years ago and I will never forget the teacher trying to explain history by forcing the students to imagine a huge saussage, great as ALL his films (even though you can' t find them on this shitty webthing) Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/04/23 Full Review Read all reviews
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Alain Tanner

Director

Jean-Luc Bideau

Max

Myriam Boyer

Mathilde

Miou-Miou

Marie

John Berger

Writer

Alain Tanner

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Synopsis Set in the shadow of political unrest in France during the late '60s, eight very different radicals and utopians gather to renew friendships, discuss the world's problems and come to grips with their disillusionment. The reunion offers reasons to look toward the future with hope -- or to stare at the present and lament. In the face of impending middle age, can a once-passionate activist (Jean-Luc Bideau), a blonde bombshell (Miou-Miou), and the rest make something positive together?
Director
Alain Tanner
Producer
Yves Gasser, Yves Peyrot
Screenwriter
John Berger, Alain Tanner
Distributor
New Yorker Films
Production Co
Société Française de Production, Citel Films, Télévision Suisse-Romande (TSR), Action Films
Genre
Comedy
Original Language
Canadian French
Release Date (Theaters)
Dec 1, 1976, Original
Runtime
1h 55m
Sound Mix
Mono