Jules et Jim
François Truffaut
Paris, 1912 to 1933. Jules and Jim are kindred spirits. Jules, ordinarily shy around women, is madly in love with Catherine and decides to marry her. When he introduces her to Jim, he begs him not to add Catherine to his list of female conquests. After the war, Jim visits the couple and their daughter. The couple is having hard times and Jules fears Catherine will leave him for good. Catherine and Jim finally declare the love they have held for each other for years...
With : Jeanne Moreau, Oskar Werner, Henri Serre, Marie Dubois, Boris Bassiak
Avec les voix de : Michel Subor
Screenplay : François Truffaut et Jean Gruault, d'après le roman de Henri-Pierre Roché
Image : Raoul Coutard
Editing : Claudine Bouché
Music : Georges Delerue
Avec les voix de : Michel Subor
Screenplay : François Truffaut et Jean Gruault, d'après le roman de Henri-Pierre Roché
Image : Raoul Coutard
Editing : Claudine Bouché
Music : Georges Delerue
Production : Les Films du Carrosse, SEDIF
Distribution: MK2
Distribution: MK2
"Jules and Jim is the filmmaker's first homage to Henri-Pierre Roché's literary work. Based on the author's Carnets, written over a period of some sixty years, beginning in 1901, (...) he centers his script around Catherine's simultaneous love for two men, two very different friends." (A. de Baecque and S. Toubiana) François Truffaut cast Jeanne Moreau to play Catherine. "Truffaut saw the possibility of a real fusion between this romantic character and the actress, and wanted to witness it." (idem) "Jules and Jim is a novel about love written in a concise style with short, direct sentences by a poet trying to brush aside his culture and put his words and thoughts together in much the same way a terse, pragmatic peasant might. (...) I wanted to make a subversive film bathed in sweetness, (...) a hymn to life and death, a statement full of joy and sadness about the impossibility of extramarital relationships." (F. Truffaut)