Jules and Jim
Director: François Truffaut
Genre: Black-and-white, Romance Film, Art film, World cinema, Romantic drama, Period piece, Drama
Year: 1961
Country: France
Language: French Language, German Language, English Language
Starring: Jeanne Moreau, Oskar Werner, Henri Serre, Marie Dubois, Vanna Urbino, Boris Bassiak, Sabine Haudepin, Anny Nelsen, Michel Subor
Jules and Jim (French: Jules et Jim, IPA: [ʒyl e dʒim]) is a 1962 French film directed by François Truffaut based on Henri-Pierre Roché's 1953 semi-autobiographical novel about his relationship with writer Franz Hessel and his wife, Helen Grund.
Truffaut came across the book in the mid-1950s whilst browsing through some secondhand books in Paris and later befriended the elderly Roché. The author approved of the young director's attempt to translate his work to another medium.
The soundtrack by Georges Delerue was named as one of the "10 best soundtracks" by Time magazine in its "All Time 100 Movies" list.
The film ranked 46 in Empire magazine's "The 100 Best Films Of World Cinema" in 2010.
The film is set before, during and after the Great War in several different parts of France, Austria, and Germany. Jules (Oskar Werner) is a shy writer from Austria who forges a friendship with the more extroverted Jim (Henri Serre). They share an interest in the world of the arts and the Bohemian lifestyle. At a slide show early in the movie, they become entranced with a statue of a goddess and its serene smile.
After encounters with several women, they meet the free-spirited, capricious
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