Jules and Jim ( French Jules et Jim ) is the third feature film of the French director Francois Truffaut ( 1962 ). A film adaptation of the eponymous semi-autobiographical novel by the French writer Henri-Pierre Rocher (1953).
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| Genre | melodrama drama |
| Producer | Francois Truffaut |
| Producer | Marcel Berber Francois Truffaut |
| Author script | Henri Pierre Rocher Francois Truffaut Jean Gruault |
| In the main cast | Jeanne Moreau Oscar Werner Marie Dubois Henri Serre |
| Operator | Raul Kutar |
| Composer | Boris Bassiak Georges Deleryu |
| Film company | Les films du carrosse |
| Duration | 105 min |
| A country |  France |
| Language | , and |
| Year | 1962 |
| IMDb | ID 0055032 |
The soundtrack composed by Georges Deleryu was named by TIME magazine one of the top ten in the history of cinema. [2]
Content
- 1 plot
- 2 History of creation
- 3 Cast
- 4 Interesting Facts
- 5 Awards and nominations
- 5.1 Awards
- 5.2 Nominations
- 6 notes
- 7 References
Story
Before World War I , two friends lived in Paris - Austrian Jules and Frenchman Jim. Once they saw an ancient statue in the museum and fell in love with it. Soon, a woman, very similar to a statue, materialized in their lives and bewitched both. For many years, friends waited in vain for which of them she would choose. Catherine stated that she loves one, then the other, then both of them. Gordian knot of mutual sympathy was cut by an unexpected tragedy.
Creation History
Truffaut found a novel by the little-known writer Roche when he rummaged in second-hand collapse, working as a critic in the magazine Caillet du Cinema . He fell in love with this book and made acquaintance with its author. At his request, Rocher agreed to write a script and dialogues for the film, but died before filming began.
Filming took place in Paris , on the Cote d'Azur and in Alsace from April 10 to June 28, 1961 , and already on January 23, 1962 the film was first presented to the French public and was a huge success, going down in history as a genuine encyclopedia of the French language of the new wave . Even Truffaut's idol, Jean Renoir , said that he would not mind seeing his name in the credits.
The experts were delighted with the mobility of the movie camera, which the operator Raul Kutar either holds in his hands, then ties it to a bicycle, or installs it on a helicopter, forcing him to write incredible pirouettes. The film’s stylistic ease is akin to the ease of experimenting heroes with their own feelings. Young people of the sixties saw in “Jules and Jim” a preaching of free love , although the film most likely highlights the doom of such a relationship.
Nine years after Jules and Jim, Truffaut filmed another Rocher novel, Two English Women and Continent .
Cast
- Jeanne Moreau - Catherine
- Oscar Werner - Jules
- Henri Serre - Jim
- Marie Dubois - Teresa
- Annie Nelsen - Lucy
Interesting Facts
- In Godard ’s film “ A Woman is a Woman, ” Jeanne Moreau appears in a bar, and the hero of Jean-Paul Belmondo asks her, “When will Jules and Jim come out?” This is an allusion to Truffaut's new film, which at that time was not yet completed.
- The plot of the film “ Vanilla Sky ” (2001) echoes the tragic denouement of “Jules and Jim”, and a poster with the image of Jeanne Moreau in the role of Catherine hangs in the main character’s room (played by Tom Cruise ).
- Jules and Jim was Stephen Hawking's favorite movie . [3]
Awards and nominations
Rewards
- 1962 - Mar del Plata Film Festival
- Best Director - Francois Truffaut
Nominations
- 1963 - BAFTA Award
- Best movie
- Best Foreign Actress - Jeanne Moreau
Notes
- ↑ Freebase data upload - Google .
- ↑ Jules et Jim - ALL-TIME 100 Movie
- ↑ Science AMA Series: Stephen Hawking AMA Answers! • / r / science . reddit. Date of treatment March 28, 2016.
Links
- Jules and Jim at the Internet Movie Database
- Jules and Jim on allmovie