Jonah Who Will Be 25 in the Year 2000

Viewed July 19, 2017.

2. Başka Sinema Ayvalık Film Festivali.

Typical French cinema, and not necessarily in a good way. An adamantly Rousseauvian movie, it's too intellectual for its own sake: The characters go on a lot about the woes of capitalism, philosophy of time, and tantric sex, but the basic elements of drama (emotion, for instance) are missing. I was constantly asking myself where they're going with this, and in fact there was no payoff. It has no gut-level impact and its many thoughtful dialogs never add up to anything particularly new or clever.