
In pre-WWI Paris, two friends, Jules (Austrian) and Jim (French), fall in love with the same woman, Catherine. But Catherine loves and marries Jules. When they meet again in Germany after the war, Catherine starts to love Jim - This is the story of three people in love, a love that doesn't affect their friendship, and about how their relationship evolves with the years.... (Full plot summary below)
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In pre-WWI Paris, two friends, Jules (Austrian) and Jim (French), fall in love with the same woman, Catherine. But Catherine loves and marries Jules. When they meet again in Germany after the war, Catherine starts to love Jim - This is the story of three people in love, a love that doesn't affect their friendship, and about how their relationship evolves with the years.
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| Austin ChronicleMarjorie BaumgartenIn this enduringly transcendent love story, Truffaut traces the relationships between three lovers and friends over the years. Moreau dominates every fragment of the movie with her magisterial eroticism. The film works in ways that touch the heart more than the mind. |
| The SpectatorIsabel QuiglyWhat I chiefly remember about this film is its images of delight, its occasional sense of piercing, incredible happiness, a radiance that overlays all. |
| LarsenOnFilmJosh LarsenPlayfulness is the defining characteristic of Jules and Jim, even if what it largely entails is a tragic gender gap of fatal proportions. |
| Village VoiceEd GonzalezMore than 40 years old, Francois Truffaut’s whirling dervish remains an ageless beauty. The film appears to us as like a specter, with a sensibility about cinematic language and sexual relations rarely seen today. |
| The New YorkerPauline KaelThe film introduced a crucial theme that was to run right through Truffaut's work: how we cope with death and how we preserve our memories of those who have died. I don't think Jeanne Moreau gave a better performance than as Catherine. |
| Filmcritic.comChristopher NullIt may not resemble reality in any way, but it's certainly romantic. |
| Las Vegas MercuryAnthony Del ValleThis breezy yet complicated look at maybe the most famous menage a trois modern history has known is Trauffaut's finest moment. |
| The NationRobert HatchA work of decadent high romance-a tour de force carrying hints of terror beneath its gay, melancholy and noble surface. |
| Q Network Film DeskJames Kendrickcomplicates any easy sense of what true freedom really entails |
| The DissolveCarrie RickeyFrançois Truffaut’s Jules And Jim is many things, not least among them a modernist Pygmalion. |