Jonah Who Will Be 25 in the Year 2000 is a 1976 Swiss 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. The film was favourably reviewed by Pauline Kael in The New Yorker. : "There are eight key characters in Jonah, all in their twenties or thirties, and all seeking solutions to the problems brought to general consciousness by the events of... 1968. Not one of them is a comfortable bourgeois; they're the sort of fantasists and obsessives who were considered marginal before 1968Each of the eight characters is a utopian of some sort, except for the disillusioned former activist, Max..Each of these people is autonomous, looks for his own answers, and acts upon them, and together, the film suggests, they can give birth to a Jonah who will have the acumen to connect their visions..Miou-Miou's the most purely enjoyable person in the movie.
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| Release date: | December 1, 1976 |
| Directed by: | Alain Tanner |
| Runtime: | 116 Minutes |
| Producer: | Yves Peyrot, Yves Gasser |
| Editor: | Brigitte Sousselier |
| Music by: | Jean-Marie Senia |
| Cinematography: | Renato Berta |
| Screenplay by: | Alain Tanner, John Berger |