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Jules et Jim (1962)

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Country: FR
Technical: bw/scope 105m
Director: François Truffaut
Cast: Jeanne Moreau, Oskar Werner, Henri Serre, Marie Dubois

Synopsis:

From 1912 to the 1920s, in Paris and Germany, two intellectuals from opposing nations share a friendship as fervent as their passion for the same woman. The woman wins out in the end and Jules is left alone.

Review:

Truffaut's third feature, and arguably his last nouvelle vague film, continues to explore the freedom offered by the movement's unpolished approach to editing, panning, dubbing, etc. in a less contemporary setting. The effect is therefore just as startling, the freeze-frames of Moreau striking poses being noteworthy, though some of the dialogue track is so poorly synchronised it lends a frankly amateur feel without thereby attaining authenticity. Truffaut adopts the technique of a literary narration to which he would frequently return (Michel Subor here) but it is the extraordinary spectacle of Moreau's ideal woman which captivates; from statue to living deity, femme-enfant to suicide, it is she who dominates the action.

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Country: FR
Technical: bw/scope 105m
Director: François Truffaut
Cast: Jeanne Moreau, Oskar Werner, Henri Serre, Marie Dubois

Synopsis:

From 1912 to the 1920s, in Paris and Germany, two intellectuals from opposing nations share a friendship as fervent as their passion for the same woman. The woman wins out in the end and Jules is left alone.

Review:

Truffaut's third feature, and arguably his last nouvelle vague film, continues to explore the freedom offered by the movement's unpolished approach to editing, panning, dubbing, etc. in a less contemporary setting. The effect is therefore just as startling, the freeze-frames of Moreau striking poses being noteworthy, though some of the dialogue track is so poorly synchronised it lends a frankly amateur feel without thereby attaining authenticity. Truffaut adopts the technique of a literary narration to which he would frequently return (Michel Subor here) but it is the extraordinary spectacle of Moreau's ideal woman which captivates; from statue to living deity, femme-enfant to suicide, it is she who dominates the action.


Country: FR
Technical: bw/scope 105m
Director: François Truffaut
Cast: Jeanne Moreau, Oskar Werner, Henri Serre, Marie Dubois

Synopsis:

From 1912 to the 1920s, in Paris and Germany, two intellectuals from opposing nations share a friendship as fervent as their passion for the same woman. The woman wins out in the end and Jules is left alone.

Review:

Truffaut's third feature, and arguably his last nouvelle vague film, continues to explore the freedom offered by the movement's unpolished approach to editing, panning, dubbing, etc. in a less contemporary setting. The effect is therefore just as startling, the freeze-frames of Moreau striking poses being noteworthy, though some of the dialogue track is so poorly synchronised it lends a frankly amateur feel without thereby attaining authenticity. Truffaut adopts the technique of a literary narration to which he would frequently return (Michel Subor here) but it is the extraordinary spectacle of Moreau's ideal woman which captivates; from statue to living deity, femme-enfant to suicide, it is she who dominates the action.

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