FREE JULES ET JIM PDF Henri-Pierre Roche | 240 pages | 11 Sep 2012 | Penguin Books Ltd | 9780141194639 | English | London, United Kingdom François Truffaut: Jules et Jim | Film | The Guardian But Catherine loves and marries Jules. When they meet again Jules et Jim Germany after the war, Catherine starts to love Jim - This is the story of three people in love, a love that doesn't affect their friendship, and about how their relationship evolves with the years. Living in Paris gives them ample opportunities to expand their horizons as they discuss politics, the arts, and life in general. Jim is something of a ladies' man but Jules isn't so lucky. They soon meet Catherine, a Jules et Jim spirit, and the three of them enjoy life together. She soon agrees to marry Jules but with the arrival of the war the German Jules returns to his home country to serve in the army. Jim serves in the French army and both survive the war. It is a happy day when the two friends are reunited but Jules admits that his marriage has been less than successful and that Catherine has taken many lovers over the years. He loves her very much, however, and will go to any lengths to keep her with him. Jim and Catherine soon become lovers, with Jules' tacit approval, but Catherine's own needs and desires lead to tragedy. It's the early twentieth century. Jules, an introspective Austrian, and Jim, an extroverted Jules et Jim Frenchman, form an unlikely friendship when they meet in Paris, it based on the interests and outlook they do share such Jules et Jim writing, although do also embrace their differences. Inexperienced Jules falls for Catherine, a beguiling young woman prone to swings in temperament. While Jules and Catherine date, Jim is openly welcomed into many of their outings, Jules et Jim being a confidante to both of them. Jules and Catherine eventually do marry and have a daughter, Sabine. But an attraction also develops between Jim Jules et Jim Catherine, of which Jules is well aware. Their combined friendship is shown through their meeting, through the Great War where the two men are fighting on opposite sides, and physical separation as Jules, Catherine and Sabine move to rural Rhineland. In Paris, the French bon-vivant Jim meets the insecure German Jules and they begin a great friendship. When they meet the fickle, independent French Catherine, they immediately fall in love with her. However Jules' naiveness and fragility attracts the amoral Catherine and she marries him. Jules et Jim stays with Jules, Catherine, and their daughter Sabine, and Jules tells his friend that while he has lived with Catherine she has had affairs with several lovers. When Catherine falls in love with Jim, Jules asks him to stay with her at his house. Through the years, Jules and Jim live a triangle of love with Catherine that never affects Jules et Jim friendship and respect. Sign In. Edit Jules and Jim Jump to: Summaries 5 Synopsis 1. The synopsis below may give away important plot points. Edit page. Share this page:. Clear your history. Jules and Jim movie review & film summary () | Roger Ebert Jules, the Austrian, wants a girl, but those he dates are too silent or too talkative or otherwise flawed, and although he tries a professional, that's not the answer, either: Truffaut explains everything with a shot of her ankle with a wristwatch around it. This magical opening sequence reminds me of Welles' "The Magnificent Ambersons," which also hurtles through the early lives of its characters, knowing the real story is still to come. The Welles hero eventually gets his "comeuppance," and Truffaut's heroes do too, but what heedless cheer they feel in the beginning. The movie was released inat the time of the creative explosion of Godard, Chabrol, Rohmer, Resnais, Malle and the other New Wave directors, and it was Truffaut's third feature after " The Blows " in and "Shoot the Piano Player" in Although a case can be made for Godard's " Breathless " based on a story by Truffaut"Jules and Jim" was perhaps the most influential and arguably the best of those first astonishing films that broke with the past. There is joy in the filmmaking that feels fresh today and felt audacious at the time. In the energy pulsing from the screen you can see the style and sensibility that inspired " Bonnie and Clyde "a film Truffaut was once going to direct, and which jolted American films out of their torpor. And you can see Jules et Jim '60s being born; Jules et Jim and Jim and their great love Catherine were flower children -- for a time. The s ended sadly, as did "Bonnie and Clyde," as did "Jules and Jim," as did " Thelma and Louise ," a film they influenced; the movement from comedy to tragedy was all the more powerful for audiences who expected one or the other. Legend has it that Truffaut found the original novel, by Henri-Pierre Rochein a discount bin outside a used book store in ; he was to adapt another Roche novel into his film " Two English Girls. The original of Catherine was still alive when the film was released. Her real name was Helen Hessel, she became a poet, and Daria Galateria writes in the Bright Lights Film Journal she attended the premiere incognito and then confessed, "I am the girl who leaped into the Seine out of spite, who married his dear, generous Jules, and who, yes, shot Jim. Jim Henri Serre is not shot in Truffaut's "Jules and Jim," although Catherine Jeanne Moreau does wave a pistol at him; Truffaut has a sadder ending in mind, and there is such poignancy in Catherine's final words, "Jules, watch us carefully! Jules Oskar Werner and Jim were born to be friends, and as young men in Jules et Jim they lead lives of charm and freedom. After giving up on professionals, Jules believes he has found his ideal girl in Therese Marie Duboisfirst seen painting an anarchist slogan on a wall and then being slapped by her boyfriend "because people will think anarchists can't spell. When Jules discovers she is not, after all, his perfect mate, his explanation to Jim is a masterpiece: "She was both mother and daughter to me. The friends attend a slide-show of sculptures, and are Jules et Jim struck by the same image, a bust of a girl who is beautiful and yet opaque. Then and there they decide to travel to the Adriatic to see the original statue, and do; Jules et Jim soon after they return they meet Catherine, whose face looks exactly like the statue's. Jules senses Jules et Jim has changed. The friends have traded and shared their girlfriends, "but not this one, Jim. They go everywhere together. A famous shot shows them in a rented cottage at the beach, talking as they lean out of their separate windows. There is a night when they come from a play by Strindberg, which the men disliked; Catherine admires the heroine's freedom, and illustrates it by suddenly jumping into the Seine. Here the narrator is indispensable, because otherwise how could we know, "Her Jules et Jim strikes Jim like lightning. So they are both in love with her, Jules et Jim Jules takes her to Austria to be married, and then the war separates them. As members Jules et Jim enemy armies, their fear is that one might shoot the other. After the war, Jim visits Jules and Catherine in their cottage on the Reine. They have a daughter, Sabine, but their marriage is unhappy. Jules confides that Catherine has run away and had affairs, but he stays with her because he loves her and understands her nature. Jules et Jim night at dinner she reveals her bottled-up misery by rattling off the names of countless French wines. The friends look uneasy. Jules will do anything to make her happy -- even share her with Jim. He wonders if perhaps it would be best to divorce Catherine so Jim can marry her; he believes their friendship would survive Jules et Jim. Their tragedy is that they shared a magical youth and that adulthood will not and cannot accommodate it. No practical arrangement of their lives can duplicate the freedom of their early days in Paris. The men can try to come to terms with this, but Catherine cannot, and "Jules and Jim" is really Catherine's film. This is Jeanne Moreau's first great performance, all the greater because of the art with which she presents Catherine's discontent. A lesser actress might have made Catherine mad or hysterical, but although madness and hysteria are uncoiling beneath the surface, Jules et Jim depends mostly on unpredictability -- on a fundamental unwillingness to behave as expected. Jules et Jim shocks her friends as Jules et Jim way of testing them. The style of the film came as a revelation in Truffaut skips lightly through the material, covering 25 years while never seeming to linger. In " Day for Night "his autobiographical hero steals an 8-by glossy of " Citizen Kane " from the front of a theater; the "Kane" influence here can be guessed in the way he uses newsreel footage Jules et Jim re-create the war, and a newsreel of Nazi book-burning to foreshadow Jules et Jim War II. Oskar Werner would be the star Jules et Jim Truffaut's film "Fahrenheit ," about a world where books are banned. Truffaut's camera is nimble, its movement so fluid that we sense a challenge to the traditional Hollywood grammar of establishing shot, closeup, reaction shot and so on; "Jules and Jim" impatiently strains toward the hand-held style.