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Jonah Who Will Be 25 in the Year 2000 Photos

Jonah Who Will Be 25 in the Year 2000 (1975)

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Movie Info

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?

Genre:

comedy
Original Language:

French (Canada)
Director:

Alain Tanner
Producer:

Yves Gasser, Yves Peyrot
Writer:

John Berger, Alain Tanner
Runtime:

1h 55m
Production Co:

Citel Films, Télévision Suisse-Romande (TSR), Action Films, Société Française de Production
Sound Mix:

Mono

Cast & Crew

Jean-Luc Bideau
Max

Myriam Boyer
Mathilde

Miou-Miou
Marie

Alain Tanner
Director

John Berger
Writer

Alain Tanner
Writer

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Critic Reviews for Jonah Who Will Be 25 in the Year 2000

All Critics (11) | Top Critics (5) | Fresh (10) | Rotten (1)

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.

March 31, 2020 | Full Review…

Tim Pulleine
Sight & Sound
Their alienation is channeled into nervous verbal energy, winning, bright, free from cant.

April 10, 2018 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…

Elliott Stein
Film Comment Magazine
It's a heady experience following their agile ruminations on time, language and perception, deftly superimposed on a film that pleases visually and formally.

June 24, 2006 | Full Review…

Geoff Andrew
Time Out
The performances are so thoroughly integrated with the material that I'm not sure where performances begin and the work of the director and the writers leaves off. The entire cast is splendid.

May 9, 2005 | Rating: 4.5/5 | Full Review…

Vincent Canby
New York Times
Funny, moving, and instructive, Jonah is that rare thing: a political film that speaks to the heart as well as the mind.

January 1, 2000 | Full Review…

Dave Kehr
Chicago Reader
To me, Jonah is another pretentious piece in the new wave of Maudlinism.

October 25, 2019 | Full Review…

Ruth Batchelor
Los Angeles Free Press
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.

June 2, 2018 | Rating: 10/10 | Full Review…

Ray Pride
Newcity
An exhilarating film with characters that are filled with life and who refuse to become trapped in endless dreams that can never come true.

September 19, 2011 | Rating: 3.5/4 | Full Review…

TV Guide
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July 7, 2005 | Rating: 4/5

Emanuel Levy
EmanuelLevy.Com
A totally believable and entertaining Swiss film about politics

January 18, 2004 | Full Review…

Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
Spirituality & Practice
A funny and warm polemical comedy that celebrates the political and social values of the Paris demonstrations of May 1968.

May 24, 2003 | Full Review…

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