Jonah Who Will Be 25 in the Year 2000

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Jonah Who Will Be 25 in the Year 2000

1976,

1h 55m,

Comedy

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85%

13 Reviews

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500+ Ratings

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13 Reviews

85%

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500+ Ratings

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?

Pauline Kael

The New Yorker

Dec 5, 2023

It's essentially a poetic original, simple, and unstressed from shot to shot, with a visual lustre.

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Tim Pulleine

Sight & Sound

Mar 31, 2020

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.

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Elliott Stein

Film Comment Magazine

Apr 10, 2018

3/4

Their alienation is channeled into nervous verbal energy, winning, bright, free from cant.

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Alison Fell

Spare Rib

Sep 22, 2021

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?

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Ruth Batchelor

Los Angeles Free Press

Oct 25, 2019

To me, Jonah is another pretentious piece in the new wave of Maudlinism.

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Ray Pride

Newcity

Jun 2, 2018

10/10

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.

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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

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