It’s December 1999, and 25-year-old Jonah has just graduated from film school. As the new millennium begins, Jonah marries his longtime sweetheart Lila. Over the course of six months, the couple meet a number of interesting people, including Irina, an exiled Russian actress, as well as spending their time with Jonah’s sister Cecile and his filmmaking mentor Anziano. The discussions Jonah has with these friends and strangers help him to gain some perspective on his life and the new millennium. –Inbaseline
During the late ‘60s and early ’70s, Swiss filmmaker Alain Tanner was the key figure in the development and popularization of the “new Swiss cinema.” He remains one of his country’s best-known directors. Born in Geneva to a writer/painter and an actress, Tanner attended Geneva’s Calvin College where he studied economics and became fascinated by cinema. Following graduation and a brief stint as a merchant marine, Tanner began working for the British Film Institute in England where he worked in the information department organizing archives, adding subtitles to foreign films, translating, and other tasks. In 1957, Tanner made a short Free Cinema film, Nice Time, in collaboration with Claude Goretta. The film won a prize at that year’s Venice Film Festival and received critical praise in Great Britain. By 1960, he had returned to Switzerland, after pausing in France where he assisted on the production of a few commercial films. It was in Paris that Tanner met a number of important French… read more
Amelia---what a boring film, despite good intentions and my man Richard Gere! I wish he could be cast in better roles. I guess that it's not just women after a certain age who get tossed aside in the film industry.
It would be interesting to see if Jonas' 68ers parents and their collective aspirations for a better society survive 20 years later however, I may not see the film anytime soon.
