Jonah Who Will Be 25 in the Year 2000

{{Infobox film

| name = Jonah Who Will Be 25 in the Year 2000

| image = Jonah Who Will Be 25 in the Year 2000.jpg

| producer = Yves Gasser
Yves Peyrot

| director = Alain Tanner

| writer = John Berger
Alain Tanner

| starring = Myriam Boyer
Jean-Luc Bideau
Miou-Miou

| music = Jean-Marie Sénia

| cinematography = Renato Berta

| editing = Brigitte Sousselier

| distributor = Gaumont Distribution

| runtime = 116 minutes

| released = {{Film date|1976}}

| language = French

| country = Switzerland
France

| budget =

| gross = $2.2 million{{Cite web|url=http://www.jpbox-office.com/fichfilm.php?id=8181|title=Jonas qui aura 25 ans en 2000 (1976) - JPBox-Office}}

}}

Jonah Who Will Be 25 in the Year 2000 ({{langx|fr|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
{{ill|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.{{cite web | url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/jonah_who_will_be_25_in_the_year_2000 | title=Jonah Who Will be 25 in the Year 2000| website=Rotten Tomatoes }}

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."Pauline Kael When The Lights Go Down {{ISBN|978-0-7145-2726-0}} p.179-183

=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.Margaret Herrick Library, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences