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Jules And Jim (1962)

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Reviews Counted:31

Fresh:30

Rotten:1

Average Rating:8.9/10

Runtime: 1 hr 46 mins

Genre: Foreign Films

Synopsis: JULES AND JIM is François Truffaut's intense, beautiful, enigmatic film about the lifelong friendship between two writers--French novelist Jim (Henri Serre) and Austrian children's author Jules... JULES AND JIM is François Truffaut's intense, beautiful, enigmatic film about the lifelong friendship between two writers--French novelist Jim (Henri Serre) and Austrian children's author Jules (Oskar Werner)--and their mutual love for the eccentric Catherine (Jeanne Moreau). With artful black-and-white imagery, the story begins in 1920s Paris when Jules and Jim first meet and become friends. As young single men, they gallavant about Paris, chasing women or studying ancient art, always animated, curious, and charming. When they meet the equally energetic Catherine, whose impulses range from dressing up as a man to taking midnight plunges into the Seine, their circle is complete. But when World War II erupts, with Jules and Jim fighting on opposite sides, everything changes. Jules marries Catherine before going off to battle. After the war, they settle into a quiet existence in the French countryside. But Catherine is restless and unfaithful. Jim reunites with his oldest and closest friends, and Catherine makes room for him in their house, asking him to move in and become her lover. Jim complies, as he wants nothing more than to please his friend Jules, who agrees to the plan. From there, the film's sweeping photography and wonderfully philosophical scripting tightens as the tale becomes even more complicated. Even its darkest moments, JULES AND JIM is movingly alluring as the friendship between the two men paints a meaningful portrait of human understanding and compassion. Like the similarly themed TWO ENGLISH GIRLS, Truffaut's film is based on a novel by Henri-Pierre Roché. [More]

Starring: Jeanne Moreau, Oskar Werner, Henri Serre

Starring: Jeanne Moreau, Oskar Werner, Henri Serre

Director: François Truffaut

Director: François Truffaut
Composer: Georges Delerue

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Along with Godard's Breathless, François Truffaut's Jules et Jim is probably the essential French New Wave film -- and it's possibly even more essential.

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11/14/07
Ken Hanke
Ken Hanke
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)

Truffaut's masterpiece is one of the best dissections of that uniquely French concept, menage a trois, with a definitive performance of Jeanne Moreau at the center; his love for the film medium is evident in every frame of this tragic yet giddy romance

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04/12/07
Emanuel Levy
Emanuel Levy
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The acting by the three stars is superb, though this is ultimately Jeanne Moreau's film.

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01/02/07
Dennis Schwartz
Dennis Schwartz
Ozus' World Movie Reviews

More than 40 years old, François Truffaut's whirling dervish remains an ageless beauty.

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12/12/06
Ed Gonzalez
Ed Gonzalez
Village Voice
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With this 1961 film Truffaut comes closest to the spirit and sublimity of his mentor, Jean Renoir, and the result is a masterpiece of the New Wave.

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12/12/06
Dave Kehr
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Chicago Reader
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Truffaut's third film may not look the masterpiece it seemed 40-odd years ago, but it remains one of his most enjoyable movies.

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02/09/06
Wally Hammond
Wally Hammond
Time Out

There is new beauty in what Truffaut is trying to show us, an exquisiteness that..forever alter[ed] the face of cinema.

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07/31/05
Bill Gibron
Bill Gibron
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Jules and Jim is sad yet humorous, breathless yet contemplative, universal yet hermetic.

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05/30/05
Chuck Rudolph
Chuck Rudolph
Slant Magazine

This breezy yet complicated look at maybe the most famous menage a trois modern history has known is Trauffaut's finest moment.

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11/17/04
Anthony Del Valle
Anthony Del Valle
Las Vegas Mercury

There is joy in the filmmaking that feels fresh today and felt audacious at the time.

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02/24/04
Linda Cook
Linda Cook
Quad City Times (Davenport, IA)

Far too cute and ridiculous for its own good, yet riddled with so many strong points that it can't be overlooked.

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