Jules and Jim

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    Jules and Jim
    1962

    Synopsis

    In the carefree days before World War I, introverted Austrian author Jules strikes up a friendship with the exuberant Frenchman Jim and both men fall for the impulsive and beautiful Catherine.

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    Cast

    • Jeanne MoreauCatherine
    • Oskar WernerJules
    • Henri SerreJim
    • Marie DuboisThérèse
    • Sabine HaudepinSabine
    • Vanna UrbinoGilberte
    • Serge RezvaniAlbert
    • Anny NelsenLucie
    • Michel SuborRécitant / Narrator (voix)
    • Danielle BassiakAlbert's Companion

    Recommendations

    • 100

      The Dissolve

      François Truffaut’s Jules And Jim is many things, not least among them a modernist Pygmalion.
    • 100

      Chicago Reader

      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.
    • 100

      Chicago Sun-Times

      Jules and Jim is one of those rare films that knows how fast audiences can think, and how emotions contain their own explanations
    • 100

      Time Out

      There is great sadness in ‘Jules et Jim’, what with the war, Catherine’s betrayals and the nebulous tragedy that is growing up, for those who can manage it but, after the whirlwind has departed, it’s the joy – the sense of plunging into life – that remains.
    • 100

      LarsenOnFilm

      Playfulness is the defining characteristic of Jules and Jim, even if what it largely entails is a tragic gender gap of fatal proportions.
    • 100

      Austin Chronicle

      In this enduringly transcendent love story, Truffaut traces the relationships between three lovers and friends over the years. Moreau dominates every fragment of the movie with her magisterial eroticism. The film works in ways that touch the heart more than the mind.
    • 90

      The Observer (UK)

      The film introduced a crucial theme that was to run right through Truffaut's work: how we cope with death and how we preserve our memories of those who have died. I don't think Jeanne Moreau gave a better performance than as Catherine.
    • 88

      Slant Magazine

      It represents some of the first and most essential steps into a new age of filmmaking.

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