Jonah Who Will Be 25 in the Year 2000
Jonah Who Will Be 25 in the Year 2000 (French: Jonas qui aura 25 ans en l'an 2000) is a 1976 Swiss drama film directed by Alain Tanner and written by Tanner and John Berger. The location of the shooting was Geneva.
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| Directed by | Alain Tanner |
| Written by | John Berger Alain Tanner |
| Produced by | Yves Gasser Yves Peyrot |
| Starring | Myriam Boyer Jean-Luc Bideau Miou-Miou |
| Cinematography | Renato Berta |
| Edited by | Brigitte Sousselier |
| Music by | Jean-Marie Sénia |
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Running time | 116 minutes |
| Countries | Switzerland France |
| Language | French |
| Box office | $2.2 million[1] |
The film follows the lives of couples in the wake of the social and political tumult of May 1968 in France, the various people including a history professor, a trade unionist and a bohemian.
Cast
- Jean-Luc Bideau as Max
- Myriam Boyer as Mathilde
- Raymond Bussières as Charles
- Jacques Denis as Marco Perly
- Roger Jendly as Marcel Certoux
- Dominique Labourier as Marguerite Certoux
- Myriam Mézières as Madeleine
- Miou-Miou as Marie
- Rufus as Mathieu Vernier
Reception
The film was favourably reviewed by Pauline Kael in The New Yorker: "The whole film is designed as a collection of little routines. Jonah is so ingeniously constructed that one can enjoy it the way one enjoyed Renoir's egalitarian films of the thirties, relating to each character in turn."[2]
The film was selected as the Swiss entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 49th Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee.[3]
See also
References
- "Jonas qui aura 25 ans en 2000 (1976) - JPBox-Office".
- Pauline Kael When The Lights Go Down ISBN 978-0-7145-2726-0 p.179-183
- Margaret Herrick Library, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences