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The Criterion edition is a tall improvement over the Fox Lorber version. The recount quality is vastly better, with far less grain and markedly finer resolution; the subtitles are also positioned less obtrusively. I was terrorized by another reviewer’s claim that the describe ’shook’ - there was no shaking at all with my copy. The transfer was supervised and favorite by the director of photography for the film, Raoul Coutard, so it is hardly surprising that it looks good; in some of the darker scenes there is some flickering, but this is hardly a major snort. I actually found the Fox Lorber print difficult and annoying to peer, while the Criterion is completely delectable, in fact better than prints I’ve seen at the cinema.
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Having seen the film itself several times, I have to admit that on first viewing its enormous reputation was a bit baffling. My fill expectations had been defeated, as I was expecting a film which was at core ‘realist’. On subsequent viewings, it became great more rewarding, especially on encountering the understanding that it is more a ‘fairy tale’ or, at least, a tale. When I stopped thinking of the film as ‘prose’ and allowed it to be appreciated as ‘poetry’, its spirit suddenly made sense. The style is truly unique, and so inevitably preconceived expectations will be disappointed.
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There is a pervasive light-hearted energy to the film, embodied in all aspects of its making, from the dancing camerawork, to the deft editing and prankish performances. And this provides a poignant difference to the themes explored, which deal with denser issues of commitment and allegiance. The characters might well be taken as representing larger ideas, such as national identity, but any symbolism is gestural and open-ended, so the film never feels preachy.
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The extras provided are extensive and give mammoth insight into the surprising background of the film - it is based on a book which in turn is a distanced recollection of the author’s experience - so, in a sense, this is a ‘true’ tale - although its tone is, as Truffaut puts it in an interview, more like a nostalgic traipsing through an ragged photo album.
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A truly gorgeous film, and the Criterion edition does it worthy service.
Francois Truffaut’s Jules et Jim was a very celebrated art-house movie in the early sixties. The unlit and white French (English subtitled) film follows the friendship of two college students in bohemian Paris beginning in 1912. They meet Catherine, a free spirit who loves to shock people as noteworthy as she enjoys both men’s care for. She marries Jules, but is not cheerful. They reunite with Jim and continue their fancy triangle.
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Jeanne Moreau’s Catherine is eternally alluring, selfish, manipulating, and cruel. She is perfect as the siren who plays with men as a cat plays with a mouse. Oscar Werner gives a sympathetic performance as the idealistic and vulnerable Jules, who goes from carefree youth to depressed middle-age. Henri Serre is well-cast as Jim, more tranquil and introspective, yet calm helplessly drawn to the enigmatic Catherine.
This is the kind of movie one admires more each time you glimpse it. At first, you are dependent on the subtitles; later you impartial like the dash of scenes, the slack change in mood from youthful exuberance to subdued acceptance, and then the stark and tragic, yet inevitable, conclusion. If you like character-driven stories about unconventional people, you’ll indulge in Jules and Jim.
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