Jules and Jim
original film poster
Directed by	François Truffaut
Produced by	Marcel Berbert François Truffaut
Written by	Henri-Pierre Roché François Truffaut Jean Gruault
Starring	Jeanne Moreau Oskar Werner Henri Serre
Music by	Boris Bassiak Georges Delerue
Cinematography	Raoul Coutard
Distributed by	Cinédis
Release date(s)	January 23, 1962 (French release)
Running time	105 min.
Language	French
IMDb profile

Jules and Jim (French: Jules et Jim) is a 1962 French film directed by François Truffaut and based on the semi-autobiographical novel by Henri-Pierre Roché. Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (539x716, 111 KB)original film poster source: www. ... François Roland Truffaut (French IPA: ) (February 6, 1932 – October 21, 1984) was one of the founders of the French New Wave in filmmaking, and remains an icon of the French film industry. ... Henri-Pierre Roché (May 28, 1879 – April 9, 1959) was a French author who was involved with the Dada movement. ... Jeanne Moreau (French IPA: ; born 23 January 1928) is a BAFTA Awards-winning French actress, screenwriter and director. ... Henri Serre (born February 26, 1931) is a French actor who is best known as Jim in Jules and Jim. ... Georges Delerue Georges Delerue (March 12, 1925 Roubaix - 20 March 1992 Los Angeles) was a renowned French film composer who composed over 500 scores for cinema and television. ... Raoul Coutard is a French cinematographer who has contributed to over seventy five films. ... is the 23rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1962 (MCMLXII) was a common year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1962 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... // Events Dr. No launches the James Bond film series, the longest-running motion picture franchise of all time, running more than 40 years. ... The art of motion-picture making within the nation of France or by French filmmakers abroad is collectively known as French cinema. ... François Roland Truffaut (French IPA: ) (February 6, 1932 – October 21, 1984) was one of the founders of the French New Wave in filmmaking, and remains an icon of the French film industry. ... Henri-Pierre Roché (May 28, 1879 – April 9, 1959) was a French author who was involved with the Dada movement. ...

Truffaut described the book as 'a perfect hymn to love and perhaps to life' ^{[citation needed]}. He came across it during the mid 1950s whilst browsing through some secondhand books in Paris and later befriended the elderly author who approved of the young director's attempt to translate the words on the page into celluloid images. This article is about the capital of France. ...

Synopsis

The film is set before, during and after the First World War in several different parts of France and Germany. Jules (Oskar Werner) is a shy writer from Austria who makes friends with the more extroverted Jim (Henri Serre). They share an interest in the world of the arts and the Bohemian life. Early in the movie, they become entranced with a statue of a goddess, smiling serenely. Ypres, 1917, in the vicinity of the Battle of Passchendaele. ... Henri Serre (born February 26, 1931) is a French actor who is best known as Jim in Jules and Jim. ... Bohemians are inhabitants of Bohemia, in the Czech Republic. ...

After encounters with several women, they meet the free-spirited, capricious Catherine (Jeanne Moreau), a dead-ringer for the statue with the serene smile. Although she begins a relationship with Jules, both men are affected by her presence and her attitude toward life. A few days before the declaration of war, Jules and Catherine move to Austria to get married. The men both serve during the war, however they serve on opposite sides and each fears throughout the conflict that he might have killed the other. Jeanne Moreau (French IPA: ; born 23 January 1928) is a BAFTA Awards-winning French actress, screenwriter and director. ...

After the separation that occurs during the war, Jim visits, and later stays, with Jules and Catherine in Austria. Jules and Catherine have a little daughter, Sabine, but the marriage is a miserable one. Catherine torments and punishes Jules with numerous affairs, and once left him and their daughter for six months. She flirts with and attempts to seduce Jim, who has never forgotten her. Jules, desperate that Catherine not leave him forever, gives his blessing for Jim to marry Catherine so that he may continue to visit them and see her. For a while, the four of them live happily together in the same chalet in Austria, until tensions between Jim and Catherine arise because of their inability to have a child. Jim leaves Catherine and returns to Paris, where after several exchanges of letters Catherine breaks off their relationship.

After a period of time, Jim randomly encounters Jules in Paris. He finds that Jules and Catherine have returned to France. Catherine attempts to win Jim back, but he rebuffs her, saying he is going to marry Gilberte (an old flame). Furious, she pulls a gun on him, but he wrestles it away and flees. He later encounters Jules and Catherine in a movie theatre.

The three of them visit a park, during which Catherine implores Jim to get into her car because she has something to show him. After telling Jules to "Watch us well," she proceeds to drive Jim and herself off a bridge. Jules is left to bury his friends.

Style

One of the seminal products of the French New Wave, Jules and Jim is an inventive encyclopaedia of the language of cinema that incorporates newsreel footage, photographic stills, freeze frames, panning shots, wipes, masking, dolly shots, and voiceover narration (by Michel Subor). Truffaut's cinematographer was the virtuoso Raoul Coutard, a frequent collaborator with Jean-Luc Godard, who employed the latest lightweight photographic equipment to create an extremely fluid and distinctive camera style. For example, some of the postwar scenes were shot using cameras mounted on bicycles. François Truffauts New Wave film Jules et Jim The New Wave (French: la Nouvelle Vague) was a blanket term coined by critics for a group of French filmmakers of the late 1950s and 1960s, influenced (in part) by Italian Neorealism. ... A newsreel is a documentary film that is regularly released in a public presentation place containing filmed news stories. ... Freeze Frame is the twelfth album by American rock band J. Geils Band, released in 1981 (see 1981 in music). ... Panning refers to the horizontal movement or rotation of a film or video camera, or the scanning of a subject horizontally on video or a display device. ... In film editing, a wipe is a gradual spatial transition from one image to another. ... Masking is a drawing technique invented in Japan in the mid- to late 20th century employed in comics and animation. ... In motion picture terminology, a tracking shot is the same as a dolly shot or a trucking shot--the camera is mounted on a wheeled platform that is pushed on rails while the picture is being taken. ... Michel Subor (b. ... A Cameraman-Reporter during a MINUSTAH mission in 2007 (Photo: Patrick-André Perron A cinematographer is one photographing with a motion picture camera (the art and science of which is known as cinematography). ... Raoul Coutard is a French cinematographer who has contributed to over seventy five films. ... Jean-Luc Godard (French IPA: ) (born 3 December 1930) is a French filmmaker and one of the most influential members of the Nouvelle Vague, or French New Wave. Born to Franco-Swiss parents in Paris, he was educated in Nyon, Switzerland, later studying at the Lycée Rohmer, and the...

The evocative musical score is by Georges Delerue and one song, Le Tourbillon (The Whirlwind) summed up the turbulence of the lives of the three main characters, becoming a popular hit. The dialogue is predominantly in French, with occasional lines in English and German. Georges Delerue Georges Delerue (March 12, 1925 Roubaix - 20 March 1992 Los Angeles) was a renowned French film composer who composed over 500 scores for cinema and television. ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ...

Influence

• Quentin Tarantino references this work in his film Pulp Fiction in the line "Don't fucking Jimmy me, Jules"
• Two sequences from the film appears briefly in a cinema scene in Jean-Pierre Jeunet's Amélie.
• It is also heavily referenced in Cameron Crowe's Vanilla Sky where: a clip featuring Jeanne Moreau appears during the finale montage; a poster for the film is displayed in the main character's bedroom; two best friends fall in love for the same woman – who leaves the insecure one for the passionate one – causing friction between them; a climatic scene involves a woman driving her car off a bridge with her lover.
• The song 'When the Lights Go Out All Over Europe' by The Divine Comedy references Jules and Jim in the lines "Jeanne can't choose between the two / 'Cos Jules is hip and Jim is cool / And so they live together".
• The song 'Speedboat' by Lloyd Cole and the Commotions refers to the film in the lines "Jules said to Jim, 'Why don't we jump in,/ While the water's clean and we are still friends?'"
• In the short story, "Las dos Elenas," by Mexican author Carlos Fuentes, one of the Elenas watches "Jules et Jim" and it influences her persective on life and relationships.
• The original music video for the popular song "Kiss Me" by Sixpence None the Richer pays tribute to the film and recreates many of the classic scenes.
• In Wes Anderson's The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, Steve Zissou and Ned Plimpton are standing outside Jane Winslett-Richardson's cabin door. Steve says "Not this one, Klaus", a little homage to the character of Jules in the Truffaut film Jules et Jim. Jules and Jim have been happily sharing their girlfriends, but when Catherine comes onto the scene, Jules is smitten.
• In the Bastille episode, from the film Paris, je t'aime (2006), the wife (Miranda Richardson) uses to whistle Le Tourbillon.

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See also

• Beatrice Wood, a possible inspiration for the character Catherine

Beatrice Wood Beatrice Wood (March 3, 1893 – March 12, 1998) was an American artist and ceramicist, who late in life was dubbed the Mama of Dada, and served as a partial inspiration for the character of Rose DeWitt Bukater in James Camerons 1997 film, Titanic. ...

External links

• Jules and Jim at the Internet Movie Database
• Century of Film at Guardian Unlimited
• Criterion Collection essay by John Powers
• Review by Roger Ebert