"Jules and Jim" was only his third feature, and appeared exactly half a century ago last month.
WSJ: Jules and Jim | For the Love of a Fickle Woman | Masterpiece by Peter Cowie
An undercurrent of sadness infuses "Jules and Jim, " but it is forever relieved by moments of droll humor.
WSJ: Jules and Jim | For the Love of a Fickle Woman | Masterpiece by Peter Cowie
Catherine captivates Jules and Jim with her capricious nature, and neither has the strength or the authority to contain her.
WSJ: Jules and Jim | For the Love of a Fickle Woman | Masterpiece by Peter Cowie
Like Goethe's classic novel "Elective Affinities" (glimpsed in the film), "Jules and Jim" confronts the dangers and exigencies of free will.
WSJ: Jules and Jim | For the Love of a Fickle Woman | Masterpiece by Peter Cowie
His parents Franz and Helen Hessel (born Grund) inspired two of the characters in Francois Truffaut's classic romantic film Jules And Jim.
"Jules and Jim" evokes a vanished world where people would shake hands and use the formal "vous" form when addressing even intimate friends.
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Mr. Truffaut even claimed that it was his discovery of "Jules and Jim, " when he was a 21-year-old film critic, that made him determined to take up directing.
WSJ: Jules and Jim | For the Love of a Fickle Woman | Masterpiece by Peter Cowie
Ms. Moreau, who had enjoyed a fleeting affair with Mr. Truffaut during preproduction on "Jules and Jim, " invests her character with a breathtaking range of feeling, from complicity to ardor.
WSJ: Jules and Jim | For the Love of a Fickle Woman | Masterpiece by Peter Cowie
In "Jules and Jim, " Raoul Coutard's camera permits light to flood into the frame, which endows each composition with depth and space as well as imparting an extraordinary sense of naturalism to the scenes in the Alsatian countryside.
WSJ: Jules and Jim | For the Love of a Fickle Woman | Masterpiece by Peter Cowie
In one early sequence, she dresses like a man to entertain Jules and Jim, and to some extent she fulfills both a feminine and a masculine destiny, taking the initiative in a period when women's lives were tightly constrained.
WSJ: Jules and Jim | For the Love of a Fickle Woman | Masterpiece by Peter Cowie
Jim and Jules must suffer, however, because their impetuous inamorata thinks the world is already rich enough, and so she can afford to cheat here, there and everywhere.
WSJ: Jules and Jim | For the Love of a Fickle Woman | Masterpiece by Peter Cowie
So too does the 6-year old Sabine Haudepin as the child of Jules and Catherine, her antic expressions conveying a state of innocence that has eluded poor Jim.
WSJ: Jules and Jim | For the Love of a Fickle Woman | Masterpiece by Peter Cowie
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