Jules et Jim / Janus Films ; mk2 diffusion ; Les Films du Carrosse et S.E.D.I.F. ; adaptation et dialogues, François Truffaut et Jean Gruault ; directed and produced by François Truffaut ; produced by Marcel Berbert.
Edition:
Dual-format edition.
Publisher:
The Criterion Collection,
Copyright Date:
2014
Description:
1 Blu-ray Disc (106 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 2 DVD videodiscs (106 min. : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.) + 1 booklet (32 pages : illustrations ; 17 cm.)
Jeanne Moreau, Oskar Werner, Henri Serre, Vanna Urbino, Bassiak, Anny Nelsen, Sabine Haudepin, Marie Dubois, Michel Subor (voice). Based on the novel by Henri Pierre Roché. Originally released as a motion picture in 1962. Special features: DVD Disc 1: Commentaries: Truffaut's collaborators (featuring director François Truffaut's longtime collaborator Suzanne Schiffman, cowriter Jean Gruault, and editor Claudine Bouché and Truffaut scholar Annette Insdorf), Jeanne Moreau (features the actor in conversation with film critic Serge Toubiana); The true story: Truffaut on Roché (7-minute interview excerpt from the French program Bibliothèque de poche), The key to "Jules and Jim" (written and directed by Thomas Honickel in 1985, explores the lives of Helen and Franz Hessel and Henri-Pierre Roché, whose relationship inspired Roché's novel Jules and Jim, 30-minute excerpt); Trailer. DVD Disc 2: Truffaut on Truffaut: Cinéastes de notre temps (1965), L'invité du dimanche (1969), Truffaut and Roud (1977), AFI's Dialogue on film (1979), Truffaut and Philippe (1980); Raoul Coutard (19-minute interview with the cinematographer); Jean Gruault (complete 21-minute interview with the cowriter); Robert Stam and Dudley Andrew (23-minute conversation, film scholars Stam and Andrew discuss the film's importance). Blu-ray contains identical special features. Booklet features an essay by critic John Powers, a 1981 piece by Truffaut on Roché, and script notes from Truffaut to Gruault.
Contents:
[v. 1.] Disc 1 (The film) -- Special features: Two audio commentaries; one featuring Truffaut collaborators: Jean Gruault, Suzanne Schiffman, Claudine Bouché and Annette Insdorf; the other featuring Jeanne Moreau and Truffaut biographer Serge Toubiana; excerpts from "The key to "Jules et Jim"" (1985), written and directed by Thomas Honickel; excerpt of an interview with Truffaut, directed by Yannick Bellon, and aired in 1966 on "Bibliothèque de poche"; trailer. [v. 2.] Disc 2 (Supplements): Truffaut on Truffaut; interviews with Raoul Coutard and Jean Gruault; conversation between film scholars Robert Stam and Dudley Andrew -- BLU-ray.
Summary:
Hailed as one of the finest films ever made, it charts, over twenty-five years, the relationship between two friends and the object of their mutual obsession. The legendary François Truffaut directs, and Jeanne Moreau stars as the alluring and willful Catherine, whose enigmatic smile and passionate nature lure Jules and Jim into one of cinema's most captivating romantic triangles. An exuberant and poignant meditation on freedom, loyalty, and the fortitude of love.
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