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MCT:July 31, 2008Um grande filme. Nada previsivel, embora a história sobre o amor dividido como é mostrado no triangulo que ao passar do tempo vai se dificultando acabou, provavelmente influenciado por esse filme, gerando milhares de filmes.
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MCT:July 21, 2008
Les tribulations sentimentales de deux meilleurs amis avec une femme impulsive et changeante. Un film à l'esthétisme soigné, certains plans magnifiques rappelant les classiques du cinéma expressionniste muet. Le jeu des acteurs est habile sans être virtuose, mais les dialogues sont intelligents et bien tournés.
Le problème majeur se situe au niveau de l'histoire qui court après sa queue. La psychologie en montagne russe du personnage de Catherine finit par lasser, si bien que l'intérêt du spectateur se voit progressivement décliner. Heureusement, Truffaut se rattrape avec une finale drastique, mais efficace. Un film imparfait, mais tout de même charmant, et une réussite sur le plan artistique. -
MCT:July 4, 2008
Cinematically intriguing, especially for it's time. The story an old one of two friends and one wild at heart woman & a strange triangle of a relatonship and we watch as it changes but yet remains over the years, untl it ends how one might expect but with just a little more...panash. Rapid fire subtitles on this one so if you do not speak French - be forewarned.
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MCT:May 17, 2008
A timeless story... a French and a German guy, best friends, spend their whole lives scamming on the same squirrel.
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MCT:May 16, 2008
Innovative cinematography, an unforgettable performance from Jeanne Moreau, fast pacing and an engaging plot make this deserved of it's classic status. It defines the nouvelle vague, and pinpoints what it is to live and love in a way few films do...
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MCT:May 3, 2008
A masterpiece! There aren't many films out there that are so delightful and lively, so vibrant and exciting. The plot is interesting and well told, with grat actors to match these characters. And on the technical side, the use of so many different elements, like freeze frames,make "Jules and Jim" unique and memmorable. The only thing I did not like was the weird narration, but the rest is simply perfect!
"Jules and Jim" is a hymn to love and friendship, poetic, inspirational and freely made, conveying the energy and passion for life its characters share. It's about many things, actually, more than I could list and analyze in this tiny space. For instance, it reflects the social anxiety of the 60's, showing us the sexual revolution and its actual consequences. Instead of defending free love, as it romantically seems to do, it shows the negative consequences of indecision and romanticism. The two friends idealize the woman so much that can't tell when she's becoming dangerous to any of both, or when she's a danger to herself. And she resists to fit into their vision of her, rebelling against everything, including herself sometimes. She is a rich and multi-layered character, larger than this film perhaps. Well I could go on discussing "Jules and Jim"'s many themes, symbols and richness, but I would go on for too long. I highly recommend it to anyone, not just art cinema lovers. -
MCT:April 25, 2008
A pretty brilliant masterpiece. It's definitely something for those into this kind of film, so I think those folks who say it's "required viewing" are a little presuming. But I enjoyed it a great deal, I love Truffaut's style and here it was fantastic. It captures the best of the French New Wave style without the bizarro-eccentric feeling that Godard would embody his work with. It's a film that's memorable and leaves you thinking and feeling, which is the main purpose of a great movie - to leave a lasting effect.
Definitely worth trying for fans of cinema, fans of romance stories, or people who like art but are tired of the usual bull. Good stuff. -
MCT:April 21, 2008
i need someone to explain something in this movie to me! =0D so, please, watch it, ok?!
[it's good. it may be french, but it's good! xD] -
MCT:February 25, 2008
I like the arty singularity, the aestheticly biased aspect of it. YET, I can't help but think this movie quickly turns into a basic account for couple's stories, love, cheating an everything.
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MCT:January 23, 2008
Revolutionary to say the least. Technically groundbreaking and structurally rebellious. Not to mention the very "French" subversive sexual content. Jeanne Moreau is a diamond in the rough.
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MCT:January 14, 2008
I'm still reeling from my first viewing. François Truffaut takes on a seemingly impossible subject: the nature of women. Through Catherine, he creates an enigmatic and self-contradictory subject while through her lovers, Jules, Jim, Albert and many others we're not given, Truffaut asks us to understand what's not intended to be understood. The art tropes in the first part of the film, where Catherine is compared to the smiling goddess statue, reinforced by the freeze-frame poses, seem to suggest that we see her through an objective lens first and foremost. It's through this lens that Catherine is filtered and obscured. And when in the film Jim says he understands her, Catherine replies, ?I don?t want to be understood.?
Knowing Catherine is an exercise in futility, and I have to question my own motives for wanting to understand her erotic capaciousness. I ask myself whether I want to understand because knowledge is instrumental to my self-preservation, or perhaps a preservation of my masculine identity (as Jules seems to be harshly emasculated by Catherine's affairs), or whether Catherine is a valid factor at all in who I am. Who am I, in relation to the Catherine archetype?
I think it's the idea of a woman that fails here. Love is never in question. Jules et Jim is a story of identity. It's through Catherine's choices, to live or die, to love or leave, that she's actualizes her being which in the end seems to be the more appropriate perspective, a subjective one. -
MCT:November 16, 2007I'd use the phrase "steaming pile of dogshit" to describe Jules and Jim but I somehow feel those words would be too kind. Far too kind. Maybe if it was titled "A Pussy, a Douchebag and a Stark Raving Lunatic Bitch" I might not be so angrily annoyed as I would have avoided this turd altogether. In the plus column some of the camerawork was nice as was the scenery. But the characters were completely unengaging, unlikable and had no redeeming or interesting qualities at all--especially Moreau. This is easily one of the most overrated movies in existence. The only thing that could've saved this one is if Truffaut showed France getting occupied and executing these characters in the street. Instead you're given an ending that Cameron Crowe would rip off for Vanilla Sky. I never thought I'd say there's a movie that would make White Chicks seem appealing but I've got some words I've got to go eat now.
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MCT:October 28, 2007
Three things I can say about this film: the wicked dialogue, stunning cinematography and editing, and JEANNE MOREAU! Every time she was on screen, the whole movie smiled at me. Her beautiful laugh, I'm in love with it. Her character is one of the best female characters ever on screen, with countless dimensions. Her singing for "Le tourbillon" gained my heart even more. Jeanne Moreau makes a fresh and stunning performance as Catherine in every way. Anyone could fall in love with her, and that was the idea of the movie. Overall, Truffaut made and OK job, not a very special directing achievement, but a good way to start. He had some original ideas, like stopping just over Jeanne's contagious laugh and the screen-cutting squares all over the film, an excellent job on editing. Despite there were some out-of-term camera shots and some confusing story lines, Jules et Jim has "THAT" little special that makes you love it! I repeat, maybe Jeanne Moreau has something to do with that.
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MCT:October 24, 2007
where the "kiss me" mtv by sixpence none the richer was based from. a melancholy look at menage-a-trois!
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MCT:October 6, 2007
this film is a poetic and thought provoking work..a major stand out in the French New Wave...however I don't think I've ever detested a female character more
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MCT:September 18, 2007
A woman worth fighting for is a woman who can't be possessed. Is letting her be with your best friend to keep your relationship a proof of love for them or a proof of selfishness? An ode to friendship which ultimately prevails over love, full of memorable moments but unsatisfying as a whole.
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MCT:September 10, 2007
It's a very challenging film, an edge no doubt. I loved the characters of this film. They five me a sense of being, very ordinary. With emotions as a stumbling block and their lives very typical, wanting children and all, although making out with two best friends is not really normal. The film was interesting in that it re-invented love, it made and showed love in another form and that's what hooked me, an interpretation of something I know nothing of, but find fascinating and strange.
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MCT:September 5, 2007
Truffaut's critically acclaimed adaptation of a semi-autobiographical novel has some amazing moments, but the rest of the movie feels like the self-indulgent, selfish movie he never intended it to be.
Jeanne Moreau's portrayal of the flawed, restless Catherine is spectacular, especially in the scene where she tells the two friends that she never laughed before meeting them, and the camera pauses as if to capture her capriciousness, and in the famous race on the bridge where she cheats shamelessly and exuberantly. The village idiot scene is amazing also, as well as the famous steam-engine scene with the vivacious Therese.
However, I found the movie too congratulatory of the characters' flaws and too accepting of the hurt they inflict on each other, much like another critically adored movie which I disliked (Closer). Nonetheless, it reminded me also of a lot of movies I loved including Amelie, and the story itself is a fascinating one esp. because it is based on truth. Interesting.
UPDATE: This movie's been kicking around in my mind for a few months now and I really think I should give it a second chance because the few scenes that stick with me are absolutely fabulous. Gotta watch it again sometime. Stay tuned. -
MCT:August 31, 2007
Quel jour est-il? Le jour du 4. Pourtant, ç'aurait bien pu être le matin du 4.5, ou bien encore la nuit du 3.5. Mais non, quand on regarde sur le calendrier cinématographique français de la journée, on oublie le décalage horaire et on se retrouve avec un 4/5. C'est difficile de mettre une note sur cette oeuvre de Truffaut, puisque c'est une oeuvre qui se ressent beaucoup plus qu'elle ne se regarde.
C'est donc dire que la journée pendant laquelle l'on visionne le film est cruciale, puisqu'elle détermine elle-même le niveau d'appréciation du film en tant que tel. Jules et Jim est un très grand film, cela va de soi, et je n'aurais pas de difficulté à dire que c'est probablement le plus grand film de Truffaut, sans toutefois être mon préféré. Le contenu est riche, très riche, et c'est très difficile de comprendre l'ambigüité du trio amoureux qu'on nous expose, puisqu'il est digne des amours les plus compliqués sur cette Terre. -
MCT:August 29, 2007
This movie is a trip! If you like foreign film and movies about people fighting over a love they can't have than this is for you!
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MCT:July 28, 2007Original take on a love triangle. Two friends fall in love and ultimately share one woman, who's insanity is relentless. The actors are very charismatic and the use of triangles within the frame is prevelant and interesting.
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MCT:July 10, 2007
Jules et Jim is a very unorthadox romance story, after all only the French could come up with a sentiment that a couple is not the best way for love.
The reason however that Jules et Jim feels so different, and indeed is a breath of fresh air as much today as it must have been in 1962,(other than the overall frenchness of it - infidelity after infedelity almost sums up a british sterotype of them) is the fact that the story, as the title suggests is as much, if not more, about the titular best friends, rather than Catherine the object of thier affection.
The film takes place over about 15 years, from just before the first world war (Jules and Jim both go to fight on different sides in the war) to the mid-1930s. The pair are instantly and lovably portrayed as two closer than close best friends, untill Jules falls in love and marrys Catherine, who it turns out Jim also has feelings for.
Unusually for a romantic film, your never that sympathetic to Catherine, she's not a perfect romcom girl, she's indecisive, she cheats, and she wants to live every experience to the last. She doesn't cause that much friction between the two friends though, even though they both share the same love for her, and Jules himself has the entire situation - and his wife - sussed, even with the resignation that inevitably comes with it.
A defining piece of Nouvelle Vague, Jules et Jim isn't so heavy with the arty hallmarks employed by Truffants good friend Jean-Luc Godard, though he does occasionaly use freeze-frames to highlight a point. The shots and light-camerawork however are just as revolutionairy and important.
The main skill though is in the story, which is completely absorbing, incredibly tight and deeply unpredictable. When the final blow comes, its the seperation of two best friends that really, really tugs at the heartstrings.
Films this beautiful are so rare, that this really has to be savoured time and time again. Rightfully its a classic.
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