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7.9/10   10,914 votes
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Director:
Writers:
Henri-Pierre Roché (novel)
François Truffaut (adaptation) ...
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Release Date:
23 January 1962 (France) more
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Decades of a love triangle concerning two friends and an impulsive woman. full summary | add synopsis
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Nominated for 2 BAFTA Film Awards. Another 3 wins more
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(8 articles)
A quintet of films inspired by 8 1/2
 (From The Guardian - Film News. 18 December 2009, 9:28 AM, PST)

"Jules and Jim": Can a Woman Love Two Men With Equal Passion?
 (From The Auteurs. 17 December 2009, 12:47 AM, PST)

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Unconventional Love Story more (89 total)

Cast

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Jeanne Moreau ... Catherine
Oskar Werner ... Jules (as Oscar Werner)
Henri Serre ... Jim
Vanna Urbino ... Gilberte
Boris Bassiak ... Albert (as Bassiak)
Anny Nelsen ... Lucie
Sabine Haudepin ... Sabine, la petite
Marie Dubois ... Thérèse
Michel Subor ... Récitant / Narrator (voice)
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Jules and Jim (UK) (USA)
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105 min
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2.35 : 1 more
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Jeanne Moreau had to jump into a river because her stunt double turned up drunk. Moreau then had to spend 2 days ill in bed. more
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Continuity: When Jim arrives by train at Jim and Catherine's house in Germany, a shot from the air depicts a French (SNCF) train. When the train arrives in the station in the next shot, the SNCF logo is hidden from sight. more
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Récitant: Catherine's plunge into the river so astonished Jim that he drew it the next day, though he didn't usually draw. Admiration for Catherine welled up in him and he sent her a kiss in his mind. more
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5 out of 6 people found the following review useful.
Unconventional Love Story, 18 January 2009
8/10
Author: Claudio Carvalho from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

In 1912, in Paris, the French bon-vivant Jim (Henri Serre) meets the insecure German Jules (Oscar Werner) and they begin a great friendship. When they meet the fickle and independent French Catherine (Jeanne Moreau), they immediately fall in love for her. However the naiveness and fragility of Jules attract the amoral Catherine and she marries him. With the First World War, the best friends Jules and Jim are separated but after the war, they reunite in Jules cottage in Germany. Jim stays with Jules, Catherine and their daughter Sabine (Sabine Haudepin), and Jules tells his friend that he is living together with Catherine, but she has affairs with her lovers. When Catherine falls in love for Jim, Jules asks him to stay with her at his house. Along the years, Jules and Jim live a triangle of love of Catherine, but never affecting their friendship and respect.

"Jules et Jim" is one of the most (or probably the most) unconventional love stories of the cinema history. For a 1962 movie, the daring tale is absolutely ahead of time, with Jeanne Moreau performing a character that never lets her love becoming boring or monotonous, reviving and renewing her feelings and desires with lovers and then returning for her husband. The friendship of Jules and Jim is weird and also unusual, with memorable performances of Henri Serre and Oscar Werner. My vote is eight.

Title (Brazil): "Jules e Jim – Uma Mulher Para Dois" ("Jules e Jim – A Woman for Two")

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