JONAH WHO WILL BE 25 IN THE YEAR 2000 - Russell Square
JONAH WHO WILL BE 25 IN THE YEAR 2000
Renoir Cinema Brunswick Centre Russell Square Box Office: 0870 850 6927
5 NOV 12NOON Tickets ?6.00
ANNIVERSARY: JOHN BERGER AT 80
JONAH WHO WILL BE 25 IN THE YEAR 2000
Director: Alain Tanner. Starring: Jean-Luc Bideau, Rufus, Miou-Miou, Jacques Denis. Switzerland/France 1975. 115 mins. French with English subtitles.
John Berger is a storyteller, essayist, novelist, screenwriter, dramatist and critic, whose work embodies his concern for, in Geoff Dyer’s words, ‘the enduring mystery of great art and the lived experience of the oppressed’. He is one of the most internationally influential writers of the last 50 years, who has explored the relationships between the individual and society, culture and politics and experience and expression in a series of novels, books, essays, plays, films, photographic collaborations and performances, unmatched in their diversity, ambition and reach. His television series and book ‘Ways of Seeing’ revolutionised the way that Fine Art is read and understood, while his engagement with European peasantry and migration in the fiction trilogy ‘Into Their Labours’ and ‘A Seventh Man’ stand as models of empathy and insight. Central to Berger’s creative identity is the idea of collaboration, with people, places and communities as much as with other writers and thinkers. In the 1970s he made three striking feature films with Swiss director Alain Tanner, most remarkable among them being JONAH WHO WILL BE 25 IN THE YEAR 2000, a hugely enjoyable, radical, sensual and profoundly human drama of the search for an authentic way of being. One of the most important films of its decade, JONAH follows eight characters all affected by the events and after-effects of May 1968. An honest, humorous and moving exploration of diverse attempts to reconcile life, love and ideals, we are screening JONAH to mark John Berger’s 80th year and to celebrate a body of work that continues to engage fully with the central issues and concerns of our times. Every audience member will receive a free copy of ‘Here Is where We Meet’, a 96-page, fully illustrated exploration of John Berger’s life and work, with original writing by Berger, Geoff Dyer, Michael Ondaatje and Anne Michaels, among many others.
