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Jonas et Lila, à demain

Switzerland / France / Germany, September 1999
FILM, Fiction, 120 min.

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directed by
Alain Tanner
Written by
Alain Tanner
Status
In distribution

The story is set in the first six months of the year 2000. It is not however a futuristic essay, but simply an echo of the 1976 film “Jonas qui aura vingt-cinq ans en l'an 2000”. Indeed Jonas has just celebrated his 25th birthday. He has completed his studies at a film school and married Lila, a young African woman. “Jonas et Lila, à demain” does not tell a story in the traditional sense with a beginning, a middle and an end. Instead the film is a composition of some sixty scenes, each helping to construct and flesh out a picture of the two main protagonists, through chance meetings and incidents which throw them into the midst of the world as it exists at the dawn of the new century, which is in fact little different from the world at the end of the old century. Jonas and Lila, in their relationship with one another and with the filmmaker Anziano who no longer frequents the film world, the Russian actress Irina, Jean, Cécile and the others – rendered vulnerable by the instability of modern life, all these people begin, with the passing days and events, to pull together the threads of what might be called “a little tale of times to come”, rather than a conventional story.

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World Premiere
September 1999
Original Version
French (english/german subtitles),  colour, 35mm, 120 min.
Production
CAB Productions SA, Filmograph SA, Gemini Films, RTS Radio Télévision Suisse, WDR - Westdeutscher Rundfunk Köln
Producer
Gérard Ruey
directed by
Alain Tanner
Written by
Alain Tanner
Cinemato­graphy
Denis Jutzeler
Editing
Monika Goux
Music
Michel Wintsch
Location Sound Mix
François Musy
Production Design
Ivan Niclass

Cast

Jérôme Robart
Cécile Tanner
Jean-Pierre Gos

World Sales / World Rights

World Sales
Gemini Films

Worldwide Distribution

Belgium
Nord Films sprl Distribution
Canada
Film Tonic International Inc. Distribution
France
Gemini Films Distribution
Hungary
Cirko Film Kft Distribution
Portugal
Atalanta Filmes Distribution
Spain
Alta Classics Distribution
Switzerland
Frenetic Films Distribution

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