Jonah Who Will Be 25 in the Year 2000

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Jonah Who Will Be 25 in the Year 2000
Jonah Who Will Be 25 in the Year 2000.jpg
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
Distributed by Gaumont Distribution
Release date
  • 1976 (1976)
Running time
116 minutes
CountriesSwitzerland
France
LanguageFrench
Box office$2.2 million [1]

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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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. It was selected as the Swiss entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 49th Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee.

Cast

In alphabetical order

Reception

Critical response

Jonah Who Will Be 25 in the Year 2000 has an approval rating of 83% on review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, based on 12 reviews, and an average rating of 8.5/10. [2]

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." [3]

Awards and nominations

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. [4]

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References

  1. "Jonas qui aura 25 ans en 2000 (1976) - JPBox-Office".
  2. "Jonah Who Will be 25 in the Year 2000". Rotten Tomatoes .
  3. Pauline Kael When The Lights Go Down ISBN   978-0-7145-2726-0 p.179-183
  4. Margaret Herrick Library, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences