Jonah Who Will Be 25 in the Year 2000
by Alain Tanner
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Actor: Dominique Labourier, Jacques Denis, Jean-Luc Bideau, Myriam Boyer, Roger JendlyDirector: Alain Tanner
Edition: VHS Tape
Audio: English (Subtitled); French (Original Language), Analog
Format: Color, NTSC, Subtitled
Running Time: 110 minutes
Release Date: 1998-01-01
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Publisher: New Yorker Video
Studio: New Yorker Video
VHS Movie Reviews of Jonah Who Will Be 25 in the Year 2000
Movie Review: embarassing
Summary: 3 Stars
The political notions in this film are embarassing and so completely tied to a particular naive era. I was very much a part of it and have rejected it.
What will really last about this film for me is that I saw it on a date. Our love affair blossomed and was based on the same foolish notions, intellectual climate and naive beliefs saturating the film. Our child should have been 20 in the year 2000. Is was not. Like the notions motivating the film, the dreams of the love affair paralleled the dreamy vacuousness of the values of the characters in the film. Nothing survives. No Jonah. No dream. No reality. No touch. Just the embarassment of having lived hard and hopefully in the 1970s and crashing on the actual nature of real humans under real stress. It was all thought-dream fantasies and promises. It turned out to be all cowardice and lies and secrets and silences. And, this is the reason the film seems so dated and empty. It has the charm of a memory and a time. It never existed in any real dimension that created any artifacts that will ever be recovered to be displayed in the British Museum. There will only be the VHS copy of this film...dated and obsolete and unviewed as the last VHS machine clicks and grinds, fails and stops, ejecting the shredded tape.
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