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JULES AND JIM

François Truffaut France, 1962
To a college-aged cinephile, Jules And Jim plays like a romantic triangle tinged with levity and gravity—its tempo fast, as in comedy, its shadows long, as in drama. On second sight, more mature moviegoers might view it as a case study in romantic triangulation, with Catherine pitting the clinging Jules against the independent Jim, whom she takes as a lover.
February 10, 2014
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While The 400 Blows was an earnest and refreshing portrayal of adolescence, in some ways, Truffaut's 1962 feature, Jules and Jim, his third, feels even more youthful, in terms of stylistic daring and energetic exuberance. Though dealing with adults and serious adult situations, Jules and Jim exhibits a formal sense of unbridled glee, with brisk editing, amusing asides, and a sinuously mobile camera.
February 9, 2014
Almost every scene is shot through with such casual stylistic brilliance. Yet what audiences have always loved about this movie isn't simply its technical brio but its emotional warmth, its embrace of a world in which tragedy is forever playing hopscotch with farce. Jules and Jim is a movie that enters viewers' lives like a lover—a masterpiece you can really get a crush on.
February 4, 2014
Jules and Jim is a great testament to that governing inability to ever truly know someone, because your own obsessions and shortcomings will always be there to stand in your own way, and art, perhaps tragically, perhaps magically, can only provide a sense of containment and perspective of life as glimpsed from the rear-view mirror.
February 1, 2014
A rocking chair has a rhythm of its own; so does Jules and Jim. More than 40 years old, François Truffaut's whirling dervish remains an ageless beauty. The film appears to us as like a specter, with a sensibility about cinematic language and sexual relations rarely seen today. A better title for this benchmark of the French New Wave might have been Breathless—an apt descriptor for the film's lyrical visual flair and whirlpool of emotions.
December 12, 2006
With an almost insurmountable liberty in his use of the cinematic form, Truffaut embraces contradiction to create meaning—Jules and Jim is sad yet humorous, breathless yet contemplative, universal yet hermetic, based on a book by a man in his 70s yet directed by a man in his 20s. It knows of life's folly so intimately that it is impossibly naïve, and its selfless love of the cinema borders on narcissistic.
May 30, 2005
A deceptively lyrical, yet understatedly complex nouvelle vague film on love and friendship... Jules and Jim is a deeply profound film about the devastating consequences of indecision on three people... and a nation.
January 1, 1998
That eternal theme of melodrama—the love too fine to last—given intelligent and sensitive treatment by Francois Truffaut... 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.
January 1, 1980
Film Culture
The boredom aroused by Truffaut—to say nothing fo the irritation—comes from his peculiar methods of dehydrating all the life out of his scenes (instant movies?). Thanks to his fondness for doused lighting and for the kind of long shots which hold his actors at thirty paces, especially in bad weather, it's not only the people who are blanked out; the scene itself threatens to evaporate off the edge of the screen.
December 1, 1962