Jonah Who Will Be 25 in the Year 2000

116 minutesCountriesSwitzerland
FranceLanguageFrenchBox 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. 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

• 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 [fr] as Madeleine
• Miou-Miou as Marie
• Rufus as Mathieu Vernier

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]

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

External links

• Jonah Who Will Be 25 in the Year 2000 at IMDb