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Jules and Jim

Jules et Jim

France

1962

104 Min
Black and White
2.35:1
English, German, French
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DIR François Truffaut

EXEC Marcel Berbert

PROD François Truffaut

SCR Jean Gruault, François Truffaut, Henri-Pierre Roché

DP Raoul Coutard

CAST Jeanne Moreau, Oskar Werner, Henri Serre, Vanna Urbino, Bassiak, Anny Nelsen, Michel Subor, Marie Dubois

ED Claudine Bouché

PROD DES Fred Capel

MUSIC Georges Delerue

Synopsis

Hailed as one of the finest films ever made, legendary director François Truffaut’s early masterpiece Jules and Jim charts the relationship between two friends and the object of their mutual obsession over the course of twenty-five years. Jeanne Moreau stars as Catherine, the alluring and willful young woman whose enigmatic smile and passionate nature lure Jules (Oskar Werner) and Jim (Henri Serre) into one of cinema’s most captivating romantic triangles. An exuberant and poignant meditation on freedom, loyalty, and the fortitude of love, Jules and Jim was a worldwide smash upon its release in 1962 and remains as audacious and entrancing today. —The Criterion Collection

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François Truffaut

The product of an unhappy, loveless home, Truffaut began using films to escape the exigencies of reality at age seven, virtually living in various Parisian movie houses. He left school to go to work at 14, and, one year later, founded a film club, which brought him to the attention of influential cinema critic Andre Bazin. Over the next few years, Bazin both financed and protected Truffaut. In 1953, Bazin hired Truffaut as a critic/essayist for Cahiers du Cinema. It was in the January 1954 edition that Truffaut published his landmark essay “A Certain Tendency in the French Cinema,” in which he attacked directors who merely ground out films without any personal cinematic vision; he also propounded the auteur theory, which opined that the only directors worth serious consideration were those who left their own individual signatures on each of their films. Truffaut noted that writing critiques enabled him to understand why he loved films and to rationalize his reasons for liking them… read more

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Cinematic Cteve

10Feb12

In-depth review of the Criterion Collection edition of Jules and Jim: http://cinemauprising.blogspot.com/2008/12/jules-and-jim-criterion-collection.html

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Emilie

24Jan12

Film doux-amer. La sublime chanson de Serge Rezvani, "Le tourbillon de la vie" est très illustratrice du ton de ce film. Magnifique.

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Alex

23Jan12

40 year people acting like kids of 15. this sounds familiar.

La Checc

28Oct11

god bless jeanne moreau!

xuxuxush and Melinoe like this

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By David Cairns on January 29, 2009

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You might want to kill me for this

By CHiBBi on January 14, 2011

People might want to butcher me and cut off my head for daring to give a bad critique on this particular movie. I’m fine with that and I’m ready to live with the shame (if there’s any shame to say…  read review

Analyzing Gender Politics in Truffaut's Jules et Jim

By HEDONIS​T on June 26, 2010

Since its release in 1962, Francois Truffaut’s seminal Nouvelle Vague film, Jules et Jim, has created much controversy over its diagetic/stylistic representation of gender politics. A film about…  read review

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By john kemp on January 15, 2010

This is a film which casts a long influential shadow (Betty Blue is one obvious example). Moreau’s character seems to me an ideal of a certain type that identifies jealously with the feminine and is…  read review

We Played With Life and Lost

By lesley on December 23, 2009

“This film makes you want to hate women.” I actually disagree with this.

First off, as a film, this is a film filled with beautiful moments, some wonderful off-beat characters, and a great deal…  read review

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