A film where eccentric, young Parisians are dragged down by adulthood and other complications... 60 years on, Jules et Jim remains one of the definitive works of the French New Wave.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Jul 25, 2024

n the male dominated world of the French New Wave, Catherine in François Truffaut’s Jules and Jim stands out as a mysterious and particularly beguiling female presence.

| Nov 21, 2023

Jules and Jim is the most exciting movie made in the West since L’Avventura and Breathless and Truffaut’s earlier Shoot the Piano Player; because of the beauty and warmth of its images, it is a richer, a more satisfying film than any of them.

| Sep 11, 2023

There’s such an energy and a freshness in both the technique and in the storytelling itself.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Aug 22, 2022

This is a near-perfect film from François Truffaut...

| Original Score: 5/5 | Feb 4, 2022

There is something very literary about the film, with dialogue line-readings that often sound like the voiceover narration by Michel Subor.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Feb 2, 2022

This is the kind of movie that only the French seem able to make really beautifully.

| Aug 18, 2021

I can't quite put my finger on what is so fascinating about love triangles, but they certainly make for great fiction.

| Mar 26, 2021

One of the summit's of Truffaut's career. This love triangle seems intrepid and brave, to the point that modernity becomes insolent. It introduced the vulgar into the bourgeois. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 8/10 | Mar 1, 2021

It's a majestic film, beautifully photographed in black-and-white widescreen by Raoul Coutard...

| Jun 16, 2020

Echoing the style of Jean Renoir while epitomising the exuberance of the nouvelle vague, this is a virtuoso technical performance from the director.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jun 16, 2020

Truffaut is having fun and so are we.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jun 16, 2020

Jules and Jim continues to be a remarkable film and one of the best by François Truffaut. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Aug 22, 2019

It turns out that the "gloriously independent" Catherine is really little more than Truffaut's idea of a captivating-but-ultimately-evil femininity.

| Aug 21, 2019

I was constantly being buffeted, shocked, puzzled, and put off by what seemed to me perverse changes of the emotional mood.

| May 6, 2019

What I chiefly remember about this film is its images of delight, its occasional sense of piercing, incredible happiness, a radiance that overlays all.

| Jul 13, 2018

A work of decadent high romance-a tour de force carrying hints of terror beneath its gay, melancholy and noble surface.

| Feb 5, 2018

...playfulness is the defining characteristic, even if what it largely entails is a tragic gender gap of fatal proportions.

| Original Score: 4/4 | May 18, 2015

A case study in romantic triangulation.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Feb 18, 2014

Truffaut has a light touch for evoking moods, time, place and desires. Its forthright attempt to grasp life sometimes makes it uneven. But, overall, this is a candid entry.

| May 28, 2008