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Jules and Jim

starring: Jeanne Moreau, Oskar Werner, Henri Serre, Vanna Urbino, Boris Bassiak
directed by: François Truffaut

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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9781572526013
Format: Black & White, DVD-Video, Letterboxed, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 1572526017
Label: Fox Lorber
Manufacturer: Fox Lorber
Number Of Items: 1
Picture Format: Letterbox
Publisher: Fox Lorber
Release Date: November 16, 1999
Running Time: 105 minutes
Sales Rank: 56867
Studio: Fox Lorber
Theatrical Release Date: 1962



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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: 5 out of 5 stars - Are We Bound By Ourselves?
This is one of the bonafide classics of cinema. Thus, I, a movie buff, feel obligated to love it. ... Read More


Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - Jules et Jim - magnifique!
Pleasantly surprising movie. This is a very well made French film. The movie was intriguing and you ... Read More


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - 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 ... Read More


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Essential cinema: Truffaut's 'Jules et Jim.'
Based on the semi-autobiographical novel by Henri-Pierre Roché, French New Wave director, François Roland ... Read More


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Jules et Jim
A smash hit in 1961, Truffaut's lyrical story of friendship and unrequited love vividly captures the enigmatic ... Read More

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