
The European equivalent of "The Return of the Secaucus 7," this Swiss film looks at the lives of several men and women in their 30s as they confront the slim gains of the "revolutionary" sixties. Max, a dissatisfied copy editor; Myriam, a redhead into tantric sex; and Marie, a supermarket checker who gives unauthorized discounts to the elderly, search for renewed meaning on a communal farm. The title character, a six-year-old child, is the carrier of their hopes for the futur... (Full plot summary below)
Enjoy FREE movies and series with your Prime (USA) subscription or when you start a 30-day free trial!
Links compiled using automated software. Availability of offers subject to change / might be region specific / out of date.
The European equivalent of "The Return of the Secaucus 7," this Swiss film looks at the lives of several men and women in their 30s as they confront the slim gains of the "revolutionary" sixties. Max, a dissatisfied copy editor; Myriam, a redhead into tantric sex; and Marie, a supermarket checker who gives unauthorized discounts to the elderly, search for renewed meaning on a communal farm. The title character, a six-year-old child, is the carrier of their hopes for the future.
Leave your thoughts about Jonah Who Will Be 25 in the Year 2000.
| NewcityRay PrideArriving 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. |
| Time OutGeoff AndrewIt's a heady experience following their agile ruminations on time, language and perception, deftly superimposed on a film that pleases visually and formally. |
| Spirituality and PracticeFrederic and Mary Ann BrussatA totally believable and entertaining Swiss film about politics |
| Film Comment MagazineElliott SteinTheir alienation is channeled into nervous verbal energy, winning, bright, free from cant. |
| User ReviewMario MAn unforgettable film. Marvelous performances, great script and taut directing. And the sausage of history, of course. |
| User ReviewX. TPretty nice film about a group of middle aged post 68 radicals. The monchrome footage portraying the characters' interiority is quite a funny narrative device. Tanner incorporates the Marxist ideas into the emsemble of characters well enough. It makes it quite a talky film which is at times a bit too didactic. I don't know if it's because the film is that dated, but some of the characters have this quirkiness that rubs me the wrong way. |
| User ReviewPrivate UThis is why I'm called what I'm called. And it is a brilliant chronicle of the post-1968 era in Geneva. With a skeptic-tantric Jean-Luc Bideau. And sausages. |
| User ReviewLuis GI really liked this. As usual, too young to get it at the time. |
| User ReviewUlla Mmy first tanner. saw it more than twenty years ago and I will never forget the teacher trying to explain history by forcing the students to imagine a huge saussage, great as ALL his films (even though you can' t find them on this shitty webthing) |