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After the war, Jim travels to Germany to visit Catherine and Jules, who have a young daughter named Sabine. When the threesome meet again, they all comment that nothing and none of them has changed. There is a bitter pang as Truffaut undercuts their statement Everything has changed; Jules no...
This initiates a complex series of musical beds, betrayals and farewells, all set in the idyllic countryside along the Rhine where Jules and Catherine live. This menage a trois is what set the Legion of Decency's teeth on edge, but it is easy to see the appeal of the...
Jeanne Moreau is the complex, disturbing center of the film, and her performace is such that it is difficult to know what to make of Catherine. When Jim tells Catherine that he understands her, she replies, "I do not want to be understood." All the men in the film spend...
Albert, who becomes Catherine's lover while Jim is visiting Jules and Catherine, writes her a song which discusses her "visage de femme fatale qui m'fut fatale," the face of a femme fatale who was fatal to him. And Albert is the one who describes the statue which Catherine...
The devastating twist that makes the ending is a surprise, and nevertheless absolutely logical. One feels slightly battered, and yet exhilarated, and ultimately filled with a sweet melancholy. The film's pleasures are practically inexhaustible. There is Marie Dubois as Therese, the chain-smoking philandering, cocotte. There is Georges Delerue...