Jules and Jim - Criterion Collection
by Fran?ois Truffaut
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Actor: Boris Bassiak, Henri Serre, Jeanne Moreau, Oskar Werner, Vanna UrbinoDirector: Fran?ois Truffaut
Brand: Image Entertainment
Cinematographer: Raoul Coutard
Producer: Fran?ois Truffaut
Writer: Fran?ois Truffaut
Editor: Claudine Bouch?
Producer: Marcel Berbert
Writer: Henri-Pierre Roch?
Writer: Jean Gruault
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language); French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; German (Original Language); English (Subtitled)
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, DVD, NTSC, Special Edition, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 105 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-05-31
Studio: Criterion Collection, The
Movie Reviews of Jules and Jim - Criterion Collection
Movie Review: Virtuosity yes, but...
Summary: 4 Stars
Truffaut reportedly watched some 2,000 movies before making his first one and also spent several years reviewing (rather harshly, I understand) for "Cahiers du cinema." I suppose it could be concluded he came away with a pretty good idea of things NOT to do when he finally got around to making his own movies. If we go by that criterion alone, novelty, J&J is off the charts. But I don't think we should do that because story is still king; style is not quite on par with substance and I hope it never is -- though this movie sure did a lot to encourage that idea, intentionally or otherwise.
What we have here is a woman-child, headstrong, impulsive, manipulative, whose idea of morality is tit-for-tat, and two fellers who are, well, gutless wonders and are unable to understand how one deals with children, of whatever age or sex. Once Catherine starts cheating on Jules with his best friend, Jules turns into Catherine's ... male girlfriend, playing letter carrier and letting her do whatever she wants as if marriage didn't mean anything. Jim is not that much better, dropping everything the minute Catherine calls, including joining her on that fateful last ride at the end. Dude, what were you thinking?
The film has many charming moments, Moreau is delightful and in many scenes so adorable that you almost understand why it must have been so hard to say no to her -- notice I said almost. But at the end of the day, what we have here is a lesson in what NOT to do in life, what to avoid. That's a good lesson to learn from one movie, considering Truffaut had to see 2,000 of them to get there.
Summary of Jules and Jim - Criterion Collection
Hailed as one of the finest films ever made, legendary director Fran?ois 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.Fran?ois 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 Roch?, 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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