The screenplay for the 1976 Best Screenplay winner from the National Society of Film Critics. As a metaphor for the changing political climate in Europe in the late 60's, "Jonah..." is a story of a former political activist and his contemporaries learning to live with the materialism of their age. Max's involvement with a real estate deal, as well as Madeline's interest in Hinduism—in order to expand her sexual horizons—are a clear indication of the shift in modern thinking—from the idealistic to the practical.
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"’Jonah’ is so ingeniously constricted that one can enjoy it in the way one enjoyed Renoir’s egalitarian films in the thirties.”
—Pauline Kael, The New Yorker
"My favorite film at the festival—in fact my favorite film this year. ‘Jonah’ presents beautiful realizations of the most joyous and sympathetic begins seen on the screen since the days of the great Marcel Pagnol classics.”
—Jonathan Cott, Rolling Stone
—Pauline Kael, The New Yorker
"My favorite film at the festival—in fact my favorite film this year. ‘Jonah’ presents beautiful realizations of the most joyous and sympathetic begins seen on the screen since the days of the great Marcel Pagnol classics.”
—Jonathan Cott, Rolling Stone
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Text: English, French (translation)
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John Berger was born in London in 1926. He is well known for his novels and stories as well as for his works of nonfiction, including several volumes of art criticism. His first novel, A Painter of Our Time, was published in 1958, and since then his books have included the novel G., which won the Booker Prize in 1972. In 1962 he left Britain permanently, and he lives in a small village in the French Alps.
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- Out of Babylon: Ghosts of Grossinger's by Richard Grossinger on page 441
- Leonard Maltin's Movie Encyclopedia: Career Profiles of More than 2000 Actors and Filmmakers, Past and Present (Reference) by Leonard Maltin on page 868
- New York Times Theater Reviews, 1977-1978 by Random House Staff on page 25
- The Cambridge History of American Literature, Vol. 8: Poetry and Criticism, 1940-1995 by Sacvan Bercovitch on page 247
- Rethinking Popular Culture: Contempory Perspectives in Cultural Studies by Chandra Mukerji in Back Matter
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