Jonah Who Will Be 25 in the Year 2000

The cinema of Alain Tanner has always made room for society’s dropouts and dreamers, and nowhere more so than in his most celebrated work (coauthored by John Berger), which tracks a ragtag group of Swiss strangers, brought together by chance and a shared anticapitalist spirit, and the little refuge they create for themselves in the face of political and economic failures. A bracing reminder that change indeed begins at home, over dinners and conversation, Jonah “strikes a mature balance between being realistic about the world and thinking that another world is possible,” notes Vogue’s John Powers. “Seeing it today . . . its undefeated sanity is bracing.”