Jules and Jim - Criterion Collection
by Fran?ois Truffaut
List Price:
Our Price: $33.99
You Save: $5.96 (15%)
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
Buy Used: from $17.28 (click here)
Category: DVD
See more DVD releases
Buy this DVD movie at online store in your country
Canada
Canada
DVD Cover Information
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-Video, 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: Sometimes that one person comes along we just have to share everything with...
Summary: 5 Stars
Some films just reach a special place in your heart; maybe because of personal situations that mirror the films content, literally or figuratively. Maybe it's because the cause or moral is something close to you, something you firmly believe in. Maybe it's because the very essence of the film speaks to your love of cinema or your love of mankind. Whatever the reason, we are all drawn to and find solace in films we can connect to.
For me, `Jules et Jim' is that kind of film.
`Jules et Jim' is a remarkable story of two men and their unwavering love for one another and for a woman named Catherine. The film spans over 30 years and finds Catherine waltzing into their lives, taking root in Jules heart only to give herself to Jim. What is so moving about this film is that, despite their undeniable love triangle, the relationship between Jules and Jim never falters. Their bond is the central most important facet to the flow of their lives, and if their relationship were to crack and fade then Catherine would find herself alone; literally. As much as Jules loves Catherine, his love for his friend, his comrade, is stronger and thus makes the acceptance of Jim's love for Catherine more acceptable and understandable. It's almost as if they share the same woman to be that much closer to one another.
This film is a beautiful depiction of pure friendship.
I think what makes this film so special to me is the fact that it reflects my own personal feelings for that of my best friend, and knowing that our feelings are mutual make this film all that much more a big part of our lives. When Jules and Jim move to the big house with Catherine it is the epitome of paradise for these two men as they can share life's every moment with one another.
The films second act shows the downside to this bond; the pain and suffering that comes from something attaching themselves too much to another. What at first seemed so beautiful and so pure has begun to corrode the friendship that Jules and Jim put so much trust in. Catherine slowly begins to despise the two men she has corrupted and begins to turn their lives inside out. This may be purely my personal interpretation of the film, but as the final frame came upon me, and Jules tragedy was all the more lingering in my mind, I couldn't help but draw the conclusion that romantic fantasizing has no place in pure platonic love. What I mean is that, this film (to me at least) further impresses the importance of keeping your romantic feelings out of the way of your platonic friendships, for while you may wish to share any and everything with someone you are very close to, in the end it can be that boundless interchange that can ruin the purity of your love for one another.
But that's just me.
The acting is superb on all accounts. There are films that live within the acting (that showing outlandish kind of acting that takes over a movie) and then there is acting that lives and breaths within the film, allowing the overall prose and or focus of the film to envelope them. Oskar Werner, Henri Serre and especially Jeanne Moreau do just that. Werner plays Jules with this distilled emotional relevance, keeping his feelings open yet seemingly guarded so as not to overpower the scenes. Think Tom Wilkinson in `In the Bedroom' and you'll understand what I'm talking about. Henri Serre is a little more enigmatic than Werner, keeping Jim a mystery of sorts. He's a nice contrast to Werner, although at times I did find him a little dry and did wish he would have inserted more of the natural charm and likeability I found in Werner. Moreau is beyond the films star here though, capturing our hearts and our attention with her firm grasp on her character's personality. She is vivacious and alarming, completely consuming with her natural engaging of the people around her. She delivers one of the smartest and greatest performances of the 60's, by far.
So, if you are looking for a thought provoking film that tackles the idea of male bonding unlike any other film then this is one you need to see. It is not a film about obsession, at least not in the sense in which many view it. While Catherine's character plays a major role in the film (and Moreau is without doubt the scene stealing star) the films primary focus is on Jules and Jim and their love for one another. Instead of being obsessed with Catherine, the men are truly obsessed with one another.
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
Art House & International DVD Video
DVD Video
- Action & Adventure
- African American Cinema
- Animation
- Anime & Manga
- Art House & International
- Classics
- Comedy
- Cult Movies
- Documentary
- Drama
- Educational
- Fitness & Yoga
- Gay & Lesbian
- Horror
- Kids & Family
- Military & War
- Music Video & Concerts
- Musicals & Performing Arts
- Mystery & Suspense
- Science Fiction & Fantasy
- Special Interests
- Sports
- Television
- Westerns
Movies most talked about in Greatest movies of all time.
Miller's CrossingTWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT; Release date: 2003-05-20; DVD
Best price: $3.15
Price in other shops:
L'Avventura - Criterion CollectionImage Entertainment; Release date: 2001-06-05; DVD
Best price: $27.30
Price in other shops:
GoodFellasWarner Brothers; Release date: 1997-03-26; DVD
Best price: $5.28
Price in other shops:
Amores Perros (Signature Series)Lions Gate; Release date: 2003-02-18; DVD
Best price: $11.93
Price in other shops:
The Last Emperor - Criterion CollectionImage Entertainment; Release date: 2008-02-26; DVD
Best price: $30.28
Price in other shops:
Once Upon a Time in the WestParamount; Release date: 2003-11-18; DVD
Best price: $4.53
Price in other shops:
Doctor Zhivago (Two-Disc Special Edition)Warner Brothers; Release date: 2001-11-06; DVD
Best price: $52.97
Rear Window (Universal Legacy Series)Universal; Release date: 2008-10-07; DVD
Best price: $12.93
Price in other shops:
The Silence of the Lambs (Two-Disc Collector's Edition)TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT; Release date: 2007-01-30; DVD
Best price: $10.75
Price in other shops:
Jules and Jim - Criterion CollectionImage Entertainment; Release date: 2005-05-31; DVD
Best price: $26.94
Price in other shops:
Similar DVD Movies
Elevator to the Gallows - Criterion CollectionImage Entertainment; Release date: 2006-04-25; DVD
Best price: $27.71
Price in other shops:
The Rules of the Game - Criterion CollectionImage Entertainment; Release date: 2004-01-20; DVD
Best price: $24.59
Price in other shops:
The Third Man (50th Anniversary Edition) - Criterion CollectionDVD
Best price: $51.99
Band of Outsiders - Criterion CollectionImage Entertainment; Release date: 2003-01-07; DVD
Best price: $20.01
Price in other shops:
Contempt - Criterion CollectionImage Entertainment; Release date: 2002-12-10; DVD
Best price: $27.12
Price in other shops:
8 1/ 2 - Criterion CollectionImage Entertainment; Release date: 2001-12-04; DVD
Best price: $19.48
Price in other shops:
The Bicycle ThiefImage Entertainment; Release date: 1998-11-24; DVD
Best price: $11.65
Price in other shops:
Shoot the Piano Player - Criterion CollectionImage Entertainment; Release date: 2005-12-06; DVD
Best price: $27.43
Price in other shops:
The 400 Blows - Criterion CollectionRelease date: 1998-03-31; DVD
Best price: $49.23
BreathlessGenius; Release date: 2001-11-20; DVD
Best price: $12.36
Price in other shops: