Jules et Jim

Jules and Jim is a French film directed by François Truffaut adapted from the novel of the same name of Henri-Pierre Roché, released in 1962 .

Summary

 * 1 Overview
 * 2 Details
 * 3 Data Sheet
 * 4 Distribution
 * 5 Awards
 * 6 Turning
 * 7 Music Film
 * 8 Analysis
 * 8.1 Adaptation
 * 8.2 References to Pablo Picasso
 * 9 About the film
 * 9.1 References to the cinema
 * 9.2 References in music
 * 10 Notes and references
 * 11 See also
 * 11.1 External link

Synopsis [ edit | edit the code ]
Paris before the First World War . Jim, a French, and Jules, an Austrian, are inseparable friends. They fall in love with the same woman, Catherine, but that Jules wife Catherine. After the war, Jim joins the couple inAustria . Catherine says she is not happy with Jules, who accepts that his wife takes a lover Jim. But Catherine is eternally unsatisfied and ever changing opinions about their choice in love.

Details [ edit | edit the code ]
Jules and Jim are two very similar characters at the beginning of the film, their relationship is even raised some rumors in Paris. However, when they go on vacation with Catherine, the two characters become distant and their friendship gives way to the trio, the two men falling in love with Catherine. There is an element of fate in the first half of the film, when Jules warns Jim that his wife Catherine will and therefore it should not seduce her. The viewer is immediately aware of the tragic aspect of the film. Follows a troubled period during the First World War where Catherine takes lovers and away the two friends haunted by the fear of being killed each other in battle. After the Armistice, the complicity between Jim and Catherine becomes increasingly, they come to desire a child. However, the couple that they form does not bother Jules, it promised to love Catherine matter what. The enthusiasm and the passion between the two lovers fades and gives way to a tense and stormy where Catherine threatens to kill Jim. The worst can not be avoided: it brings death with it along a destroyed bridge driving his new car and neglecting to slow at the end of the road. Self steep fall rather than giving the impression to take off, which makes this moment even more burdensome. Jules helplessly to the disaster.

Data Sheet [ edit | edit the code ]

 * Production: Marcel Berbert
 * Director: François Truffaut
 * Script: François Truffaut , Jean Gruault, based on the novel by Henri-Pierre Roché
 * Photo: Raoul Coutard
 * Still photographer: Raymond Cauchetier
 * Sets: Fred Capel
 * Music: Georges Delerue ; the song Le Tourbillon is Bassiak Cyrus  (pseudonym of Serge Rezvani).
 * Editing: Claudine Bouché
 * Format: black and white 35mm film process Franscope
 * Genre: drama
 * Release date:  France : 23 January 1962
 * Duration: 102 minutes

Distribution [ edit | edit the code ]

 * Jeanne Moreau : Catherine
 * Oskar Werner Jules, Austrian
 * Henri Serre : Jim, the French
 * Marie Dubois : Thérèse
 * Cyrus Bassiak ( Serge Rezvani ): Albert, guitarist
 * Haudepin Sabine Sabine
 * Annie Nelsen : Lucie
 * Vanna Urbino : Gilberte
 * Michel Subor : voice of the narrator

Awards [ edit | edit the code ]

 * 1962 : Grand Prize of the Film Academy
 * Prize for Best Director at the Mar del Plata Film Festival 1962
 * 1963 : Silver Ribbon award from the Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists
 * Best European Film at the Bodil Awards

Turning [ edit | edit the code ]
The old bridge over the Seine between Limay and Mantes-la-Jolie (Yvelines); the remaining arches are side Limay
 * The filming began in April 1961 .
 * The cottage on the shores of the Rhine in Austria in the story where Jules and Jim joined Catherine, is actually the Sihlbach refuge Molkenrain [ref. required] .
 * Military Cemetery Jim visit before visiting Jules and Catherine is the cemetery Vieil-Armand (Hartmannswillerkopf), located in the Upper Rhine [ref. required] .
 * Gateway Valmy, which is at the end of the street of Valmy and crosses the tracks in Charenton-le-Pont, was the setting at the famous racing scene between the three protagonists. It was rebuilt from and no longer bears the visible mesh closed in the film.
 * The mill in which live Catherine and Jules is the mill Andé located in Eure.
 * The scene of the car was shot on the old bridge Limay -Mantes-la-Jolie (Yvelines)

Music of the film [ edit | edit the code ]

 * The music was composed by Georges Delerue .
 * Serge Rezvani plays the character of Albert, who in the film wrote the song Le Tourbillon for Catherine. He actually wrote this song seven years earlier, in reference to the couple that just formed Jeanne Moreau and his companion at the time Jean-Louis Richard, who was also the best friend of Serge .

Adaptation [ edit | edit the code ]
Jules and Jim is an aesthetic bias François Truffaut . Rather than replace the difficult to adapt scenes from the novel by equivalent scenes process he had denounced in a famous article A Certain Tendency of the French Cinema, Francois Truffaut preferred to read voice of Henry's novel passages -Pierre Roché by Michel Subor . This process can get to the literary taste of the novel screen.

Several items have been changed between the novel and the film:
 * The character of Catherine becomes Kathe and passes of German nationality in the novel to French nationality in the film.
 * In the novel, Kathe has two children when she was a girl in the film.

References to Pablo Picasso [ edit | edit the code ]
François Truffaut placed in the film thirteen reproductions of paintings by Pablo Picasso ( The Embrace in the attic , acrobats Family with Monkey , Girl with a Mandolin , Study for jugglers - girl with dog , the Lapin Agile , Female sitting naked , Comports, glasses, bottles, fruit , The Italian , The Two Acrobats coffee , Pierrot , Harlequin sitting , Lovers , Mother and Child ). According to Martin Lefebvre, Picasso's paintings are both time markers in a film whose action takes place over more than 20 years without the characters are aging brand and indices reflecting the state of spirit or transformations of the characters in the foreground.For example, early in the film, François Truffaut place in the Jules apartment in the attic Embrace reflecting his desire to find the company of a woman, and in the apartment of Jim Family with monkey acrobatsreflecting its most fickle nature, close to the acrobat . Similarly, in the scene where Jim Catherine expected in a cafe, in the background we see Picasso's painting the Lapin Agile: Harlequin glass representing a similar Harlequin Pablo Picasso and Germaine Gallo who had the reputation of being a woman including fatal Carlos Casagemas was madly in love .

Around the movie [ edit | edit the code ]

 * For his novel, Henri-Pierre Roché draws from a largely autobiographical vein: Jim (here Henri Serre ), it's him, or almost and Jules ( Oskar Werner ) and Kathe (in the book) / Catherine ( Jeanne Moreau ) are directly inspired by the German writer (Austria in the book) Franz Hessel and Helen Grund (Berliner, the daughter of a Protestant Prussian banker) Parents Stéphane Hessel, normalien resistant and diplomat born in Berlin in 1917 (as he confirmed himself in some of his writings published and interviews ).  It is in fact after the death of Helen Hessel (born Grund), died in 1982 at the age of 96, that was publicly revealed the identity of those who inspired this famous trio, especially in notebooks Henri-Pierre Roché entitled Carnets Years Jules and Jim, Part I, 1920-1921, books published in 1990 with a preface by François Truffaut , or by the publication in 1996 of some of the letters of Helen Hessel Henry -Pierre Roché inHelen Letters, letters to Henri-Pierre Roché, 1920-1921.
 * "Jules and Jim is a hymn to life and death, a demonstration by the joy and sadness of the impossibility of any romantic combination outside of the couple," wrote Truffaut a year before filming.
 * Behind the scenes of the film were the subject of a documentary made ​​in 2009 by Thierry Tripod .

References to the movies [ edit | edit the code ]

 * In 1980 , Paul Mazursky realized Willie and Phil (in) which he pays tribute to Jules and Jim to discuss the sexual revolution of the sixties and seventies. The scenario shows how ultimately this second modern sexual revolution, which affected a lot of people much more important than the cosmopolitan youth of Montparnasse twenties, was inversely less subversive and more bland than that described by François Truffaut desired] .
 * The film is mentioned in the film The Bubble by Eytan Fox Noam told Lulu, on their way to Nablus: "You are Jeanne Moreau, I'm Jules, we will find Jim and die of love"
 * The film is mentioned in The Young Girls of Rochefort of Jacques Demy . Solange opened the door and discovered the fairground, she told them having fun "Here Jules and Jim."
 * The film is mentioned in the series Queer as Folk (US version), in season 2.
 * Even before its release in 1962, the film is mentioned as early as 1961 in the film A Woman Is a Woman of Jean-Luc Godard . Alfred, character played by Jean-Paul Belmondo , crosses Jeanne Moreau in a cafe and asks if "it works with Jules and Jim"; the actress says "moderato", this time referring to a film in Peter Brook released in 1960 and inspired a novel by Marguerite Duras , Moderato Cantabile , where Jeanne Moreau the stars alongside Jean-Paul Belmondo .


 * The film is mentioned several times in another film, Amélie .

References in music [ edit | edit the code ]

 * The English group Groove Armada used passages of the film for the introduction of its title Shameless with Bryan Ferry, 'I take possession of my love [...] I urge you absolutely naked against me. »