Jules and Jim
Part of the BAMcinématek series 1962: New York Film Critics Circle
Fri, Nov 6 at 2, 4:30, 6:50, 9:30pm
Directed by François Truffaut
With Jeanne Moreau, Oskar Werner, Henri Serre
(1962) 105min
Truffaut saw two of his films released in NYC in 1962, including this "ageless beauty" (The Village Voice) starring a never-better Jeanne Moreau as the enigmatic and willful Catherine, a complicated romantic and the object of desire (and destruction) for two young friends.
Chicago Sun-Times on Jules and Jim
"Truffaut's camera is nimble, its movement so fluid that we sense a challenge to the traditional Hollywood grammar of establishing shot, closeup, reaction shot and so on; Jules and Jim impatiently strains toward the hand-held style." More
The Village Voice on Jules and Jim
"The film appears to us as like a specter, with a sensibility about cinematic language and sexual relations rarely seen today." More