I love this movie so much

Thanks for the memories!

Crappy film

Absolutely the worst movie.

For some reason I was impressed when I saw this in 1962. But no longer. Difficult to remember what impressed me. I just recall thinking for the last 50 years: Ah, Yes: Jules and Jim. Good film. I don't think so any more, having just seen it again, but it must have something. Perhaps it's the atmosphere, or the way the relationships unroll, or the way it's shot. The little girl is cute, but she disappears well before the end. What happened to her ? I do think Jeanne Moreau is physically quite attractive, but I understand it if a number of people don't agree. Her character is exceptionally selfish, spreading unhappiness, and spoiling other people's lives. Not to say actually taking them. This is a gloomy, dispiriting film. I certainly wouldn't call it an exhilarating experience, like Philip French seems to thinkIt's a mystery, but it no longer seems to be worth solving. Just depressing. Frankly, a struggle to get through.

The basis for this movie is a love triangle between two friends (Oskar Werner as Jim and Henri Serre as Jules) and a free-spirited young woman (Jeanne Moreau as Catherine). It's a joy to watch, all three actors are fantastic, and the 'New Wave' filmmaking by Francois Truffaut is very creative,with brilliant sequences which make it clear that he had an influence on Wes Anderson. It was only his third movie, and there is a freshness about it, with several iconic scenes including the ending, but I won't spoil it. The movie captures universal truths about relationships, while at the same time highlighting the very French attitude towards affairs. Never slow, and definitely worth watching.

Decades of a love triangle concerning two friends and an impulsive woman (Jeanne Moreau).The film is based on Henri-Pierre Roché's 1953 semi-autobiographical novel describing his relationship with young writer Franz Hessel and Helen Grund, whom Hessel married. Truffaut came across the book in the mid-1950s whilst browsing through some secondhand books at a bookseller along the Seine in Paris. Later he befriended the elderly Roché, who had published his first novel at the age of 74. The author approved of the young director's interest to adapt his work to another medium.The movie has been called "an inventive encyclopedia of the language of cinema", as Truffaut incorporated newsreel footage, photographic stills, freeze frames, panning shots, wipes, masking, dolly shots, and voice-over narration (by Michel Subor). Today, the influence continues in everything from "Goodfellas" to "Pulp Fiction" to "Life Aquatic" (three films you would not expect).

It's a saddening recurrence in the modern popular film industry that the genre and theme of romance (and more importantly love) is stripped of its realism and gravity, instead, we are fed a diet of superfluous, courtly, modern fairy tale romance that drains the life and grit out of a subject that is ultimately reliant on human elements. Truffaut captures this realism perfectly in 'Jules et Jim', demonstrating the true sporadic, erratic and almost insane nature of love, in no way is love and romance glorified and presented as something easily obtainable and also maintainable, neither does it follow the typical Ideals and mores of society, presenting relationships and love as a practice involving more than just the idealistic couple itself.