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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Binding: DVD
Brand: Image Entertainment
EAN: 9780780027688
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, DVD-Video, Special Edition, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 078002768X
Label: Criterion Collection, The
Manufacturer: Criterion Collection, The
Number Of Items: 2
Publisher: Criterion Collection, The
Region Code: 1
Release Date: May 31, 2005
Running Time: 105 minutes
Sales Rank: 17133
Studio: Criterion Collection, The
Theatrical Release Date: 1962
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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.
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François Truffaut's third feature, though it's named for the two best friends who become virtually inseparable in pre-World War I Paris, is centered on Jeanne Moreau's Catherine, the most mysterious, enigmatic woman in his career-long gallery of rich female portraits. Adapted from the novel by Henri-Pierre Roché, Truffaut's picture explores the 30-year friendship between Austrian biologist Jules (Oskar Werner) and Parisian writer Jim (Henri Serre) and the love triangle formed when the alluring Catherine makes the duo a trio. Spontaneous and lively, a woman of intense but dynamic emotions, she becomes the axle on which their friendship turns as Jules woos her and they marry, only to find that no one man can hold her. Directed in bursts of concentrated scenes interspersed with montage sequences and pulled together by the commentary of an omniscient narrator, Truffaut layers his tragic drama with a wealth of detail. He draws on his bag of New Wave tricks for the carefree days of youth--zooms, flash cuts, freeze frames--that disappear as the marriage disintegrates during the gloom of the postwar years. Werner is excellent as Jules, a vibrant young man whose slow, melancholy slide into emotional compromise is charted in his increasingly sad eyes and resigned face, while Serre plays Jim as more of an enigma, guarded and introspective. But both are eclipsed in the glare of Moreau's radiant Catherine: impulsive, demanding, sensual, passionate, destructive, and ultimately unknowable. A masterpiece of the French New Wave and one of Truffaut's most confident and accomplished films. --Sean Axmaker
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Rating:  - Are We Bound By Ourselves?
This is one of the bonafide classics of cinema. Thus, I, a movie buff, feel obligated to love it. Alas, I can not force myself to love it but I do like it alot and it does impress me in many ways. The acting is superb. Jeanne Moreau effortlessly carries the movie. One of her great, iconic performances that has made her a living legend of the silver screen. Truffaut directs and writes with a fluidity that deftly compliments the sheer volume of dialogue. These characters (and the narrator) talk ... Read More
Rating: - Jules et Jim - magnifique!
Pleasantly surprising movie. This is a very well made French film. The movie was intriguing and you never knew what was happening next. The film explores mainly the friendship between two characters and how each other's lives are changed when they fall for the same woman. The film takes place around WW1.
The DVD from Citerion Collection, comes with 2 disc loaded with Special Features.
Rating: - a taste of the Belle Epoque for our time
This is one of my all-time favorite films, and my favorite Truffaut film--it was also reportedly Truffaut's favorite of his own works. Visually, it has a kind sepia-toned haze of one's remembrances of a lazy afternoon, or one's best childhood summer. The costumes, the bike rides, the delightful characters the protagonists (Jules, Jim & Catherine) encounter are a model for the bohemian life that many still aspire to--enjoying great food, drink, art and theater, and of course a very free attitude ... Read More
Rating: - Essential cinema: Truffaut's 'Jules et Jim.'
Based on the semi-autobiographical novel by Henri-Pierre Roché, French New Wave director, François Roland Truffaut's (1932-1984) third film, Jules and Jim (1962), has been called his masterpiece. Set in France and Germany during World War I, the film chronicles the turbulent, 25-year love-triangle involving an introverted Austrian biologist, Jules (Oskar Werner), an extroverted Parisian writer, Jim (Henri Serre), and the object of their mutual desire, the alluring, free-spirited Catherine (Jeanne Moreau), ... Read More
Rating: - Jules et Jim
A smash hit in 1961, Truffaut's lyrical story of friendship and unrequited love vividly captures the enigmatic nature of l'amour. Moreau is magnificent as the tempestuous object of love, a mercurial woman who won't be completely possessed by any man. Adapted from Henri-Pierre Roche's novel and shot by master lensman Raoul Coutard, Truffaut's gorgeous film captures the jubilance of youth with freeze frames, zoom-ins, and one iconic tracking shot of Moreau, dressed as a man, running across a footbridge with Jules ... Read More
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