Jules and Jim

Name: Jules and Jim
Genre: Drama, Romance
Released: April 23, 1962
Duration: 105 min
Rating: 97
Cast: Jeanne Moreau, Oskar Werner

1962

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Criterion Collection, The | Release Date: April 23, 1962 | Not Rated

Starring: Jeanne Moreau, Oskar Werner

Summary: Decades of a love triangle concerning two friends and an impulsive woman.

Director: François Truffaut

Genre(s): Drama, Romance

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 105 min

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Pauline Kael

Elliptical, full of wit and radiance, this is the best movie ever made about what most of us think of as the Scott Fitzgerald period (though the film begins much earlier).

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Carrie Rickey

Feb 10, 2014

François Truffaut’s Jules And Jim is many things, not least among them a modernist Pygmalion. Read full review

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Empire David Parkinson

The mood of the movie reflects the exuberance of youth and the wisdom of experience. New Wave gold. Read full review

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Josh Larsen

Playfulness is the defining characteristic of Jules and Jim, even if what it largely entails is a tragic gender gap of fatal proportions. Read full review

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Roger Ebert

Jules and Jim is one of those rare films that knows how fast audiences can think, and how emotions contain their own explanations Read full review

Andrew Sarris

Jules and Jim is that rarity of rarities, a genuinely romantic film. [03 May 1962, p.11]

Bosley Crowther

To put it quickly and crisply, it is charming, exciting and sad. Read full review

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LamontRaymond

Oct 10, 2020

One of the all-time greats... Jeane Moreau is fantastic, as always - though I did love her in La Femme Nikita, maybe more

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AJ_13

Apr 22, 2022

THE 400 BLOWS REVIEW (IDK WHY THE FILM AIN'T IN METACRITIC)

The 400 blows is a pleasant and accesible film to begin with nouvelle vague. François Truffaut's great screenplay and floating camerawork make the movie flow. It's ending truely is enigmatic although I gotta admit that I didn'tTHE 400 BLOWS REVIEW (IDK WHY THE FILM AIN'T IN METACRITIC)

The 400 blows is a pleasant and accesible film to begin with nouvelle vague. François Truffaut's great screenplay and floating camerawork make the movie flow. It's ending truely is enigmatic although I gotta admit that I didn't understand it on my first watch.

I hate every single adult in this film.… Expand

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