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Shortly after, Jules' cousin sends three women friends of his to call on Jules. Jules and Jim have dinner with the women, and among them is one who has the face of the statue. Catherine (Jeanne Moreau) fascinates the two friends even more than the statue. Jules is especially attracted...
Jules and Jim have a satisfying, placid friendship, but they love Catherine because she is anything but placid. When they are with her, exciting, spontaneous things happen. Catherine is mercurial, jumping frenziedly from one activity to the next. She goes out with them dressed as a man, and at one...
On a whim, the trio goes to the sea. They rent a house by the beach and spend the summer there. They have a glorious time of it, with a few minor incidents. Catherine is extremely jealous when Jules and Jim don't pay any attention to her because they...
Here the happy times end, and the film breaks in half. World War I erupts and Jules and Jim fight on opposing sides. Each one's greatest fear is that he will kill the other on the battlefield. Truffaut skillfully mixes archival footage of battles with shots of Jules in...
Truffaut makes clear that the war brought to an end the world that Jules, Jim and Catherine knew. All at once, the radiance and airiness of the film's first half make sense. Cinematographer Raoul Coutard's camera captures inhumanly beautiful scenes. The screen is so luminous that at times...