Jules and Jim (Blu-ray + DVD)
A Hymn to Life and Love
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Blu-ray Details
- Number of Discs: 3
- Rated: Unrated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 46 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: February 4, 2014
- Originally Released: 1962
- Label: Criterion Collection
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Oskar Werner, Henri Serre & Jeanne Moreau | |
Directed by | François Truffaut | |
Edited by | Claudine Bouché | |
Screenwriting by | François Truffaut & Jean Gruault | |
Composition by | Georges Delerue | |
Director of Photography: | Raoul Coutard |
Entertainment Reviews:
I was constantly being buffeted, shocked, puzzled, and put off by what seemed to me perverse changes of the emotional mood.
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Esquire Magazine
Rating: 4/5 --
To put it quickly and crisply, it is charming, exciting and sad.
New York Times
It turns out that the "gloriously independent" Catherine is really little more than Truffaut's idea of a captivating-but-ultimately-evil femininity.
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Sojourner
Jules and Jim continues to be a remarkable film and one of the best by François Truffaut. [Full Review in Spanish]
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El Pais (Spain)
...Truffaut's masterpiece remains one of the most exhilarating of the New Wave movies...
Sight and Sound
Rating: 4/4 --
...playfulness is the defining characteristic, even if what it largely entails is a tragic gender gap of fatal proportions.
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LarsenOnFilm
5 stars out of 5 -- Truffaut's filmmaking still feels fresh, and as the film moves inexorably to a tragic conclusion, his sprightly handling doesn't dilute the heartrending drama. Still a masterpiece.
New York Times
Product Description:
JULES AND JIM is François Truffaut's intense, beautiful, enigmatic film about the lifelong friendship between two writers--French novelist Jim (Henri Serre) and Austrian children's author Jules (Oskar Werner)--and their mutual love for the eccentric Catherine (Jeanne Moreau). With artful black-and-white imagery, the story begins in 1920s Paris when Jules and Jim first meet and become friends. As young single men, they gallavant about Paris, chasing women or studying ancient art, always animated, curious, and charming. When they meet the equally energetic Catherine, whose impulses range from dressing up as a man to taking midnight plunges into the Seine, their circle is complete. But when World War II erupts, with Jules and Jim fighting on opposite sides, everything changes. Jules marries Catherine before going off to battle. After the war, they settle into a quiet existence in the French countryside. But Catherine is restless and unfaithful. Jim reunites with his oldest and closest friends, and Catherine makes room for him in their house, asking him to move in and become her lover. Jim complies, as he wants nothing more than to please his friend Jules, who agrees to the plan. From there, the film's sweeping photography and wonderfully philosophical scripting tightens as the tale becomes even more complicated. Even its darkest moments, JULES AND JIM is movingly alluring as the friendship between the two men paints a meaningful portrait of human understanding and compassion. Like the similarly themed TWO ENGLISH GIRLS, Truffaut's film is based on a novel by Henri-Pierre Roché.
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- Sales Rank: 64,813
- UPC: 715515113519
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