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Director Francois Truffaut (Jules and Jim), a prime mover of the New Wave, exploits his star's Chaplinesque lost-waif charm, but Aznavour lacks the clownish resilience that enabled Chaplin's eternal tramp to give as good as he took from life. A hero who falls to his defeat generates dramatic interest; but the piano player seems to wallow in the complacency of his own despair, as if he were past caring and past caring about. Truffaut's centrifugal direction sends pieces of crime thriller, love story, and psychological case study flying off at unrelated tangents. Moreover...
Jules and Jim. In France, love makes the world go triangular. Director François Truffaut (The 400 Blows) translates the ways of two men with a maid into a film that is charming, sick, hilarious, depressing and wise...
Jules and Jim. In France, love makes the world go triangular. Director François Truffaut (The 400 Blows) translates the ways of two men with a maid into a film that is charming, sick, hilarious, depressing, wise and, most of the time, quite wonderful...
Jules and Jim. In France, love makes the world go triangular. Director Francois Truffaut (The 400 Blows) translates the ways of two men with a maid into a film that is charming, sick, hilarious, depressing, wise and, most of the time, quite wonderful...
Jules and Jim. Director Francois Truffaut's story of three young people in Paris is so spontaneous, sincere, generous, naive and natural that a spectator who sits down to watch it feeling old and dry may rise up feeling young and green...