Jules and Jim (1962) on Netflix
In Paris before the war, shy Austrian writer Jules and outgoing Frenchman Jim become friends. They meet Catherine, who resembles the statue they traveled to see, and both men fall for her.
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Plot summary
Two men in Paris before World War I become close: Jules, an Austrian writer who is shy, and Jim, a Frenchman who is more outgoing. They share a taste for art and a bohemian way of life, and at a slide show they notice a photograph of a goddess with a calm smile. They travel to an island in the Adriatic to see the sculpture. In the city they meet Catherine, who brings that smile to mind, and the three become inseparable. She and Jules begin a relationship, while Jim keeps company with Gilberte, whom he sees apart from the others. Catherine asks Jim to meet her at a cafe. Not long before the war begins, she and Jules marry in Austria.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Jules and Jim (1962)
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- The film is based on a 1953 semi-autobiographical novel by Henri-Pierre Roché, who wrote about his own relationship with the young writer Franz Hessel and Hessel's wife Helen Grund.
- Martin Scorsese's GoodFellas (1990) took its pacy energy, opening voiceover, extensive narration, quick cuts and freeze frames from his love of French New Wave cinema, especially Jules et Jim, according to ShortList.
- François Truffaut came across the book in a Paris shop in the mid-1950s and later befriended its author, Henri-Pierre Roché, who approved of the director's interest in adapting the work.
