| Jonah Who Will Be 25 in the Year 2000 | |
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| Directed by | Alain Tanner |
| Produced by | Yves Gasser Yves Peyrot |
| Written by | John Berger Alain Tanner |
| Starring | Myriam Boyer Jean-Luc Bideau Miou-Miou |
| Music by | Jean-Marie Sénia |
| Cinematography | Renato Berta |
| Edited by | Brigitte Sousselier |
Release date |
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Running time | 116 minutes |
| Country | Switzerland France |
| Language | French |
| 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.
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
- List of submissions to the 49th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film
- List of Swiss submissions for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film
References
- ^ http://www.jpbox-office.com/fichfilm.php?id=8181
- ^ 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
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