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Jules et Jim

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Jules et Jim

Film (1962), directed by Francois Truffaut and based on a novel by Henrie-Pierre Roché. It is a bittersweet triangular love affair centred on a young woman played by Jeanne Moreau, which spans three decades around the time of World War I.

Bearing all the hallmarks of the French New Wave, the black-and-white film is a humanistic account that switches from pathos to whimsy without losing its elegiac tone.



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Jules et Jim (1962), directed by Francois Truffaut, was her most successful international film.
These photographs also recall the extra-diegetic world as they feature Jeanne Moreau as she looked during the New Wave period, referencing her own cinematic history and especially her role in Jules et Jim (Truffaut, 1962), where her image was "frozen" at certain moments during the film.
The device is reminiscent of the French New Wave, especially Jules et Jim, and Allen paid Francois Truffaut direct homage in a recent interview in LA Weekly: "We used to worship European films in New York.
 
 
 
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