The most beautiful movie in the world
Anyone agree?
sharei certainly do. jules and jim may not necessarily be the "best" of all movies (that, in my opinion, is hitchcock's vertigo) but it's hard not to call the film beautiful. the cinematography by raoul coutard is astonishing, truffaut's direction is fantastic, the performances are fantastic all around (jeanne moreau drives the movie), and the score by georges delerue is one of my favorite of all the cinema. this is definitely the best film of the french new wave, though i also love godard's breathless, alphaville, pierrot le fou, and truffaut's other masterpiece the 400 blows.
shareWhat a coincidence, I also think that Vertigo is the best and I love the films of Godard(especially Vivre sa vie and Pierrot le fou).
sharewow you guys should get a room!
shareNot the most, but one of the most beautiful films in the movie history.
The music of George Delerue is charming. I think that this film is much greater than Vertigo or any other of Hitchkok's films that I've ever seen.
I think the bridge scene is one of the most beautifully shots scenes in film history.
Not sure if there's much to compare in way of Hitchcock (though I loved reading their conversations), outside of both directors worked with DP's who loved their craft, and played with new conventions.
My favorite of Hitchcocks are: Vertigo, North By Northwest, and Strangers on a Train.
Try as I may I can not bring myself to like this film and Im a fan of Truffaut.The characters never become real to me.I dont find them engaging at all.
On the subject of beautiful films-Terence Malicks Days of Heaven is often overlooked.
On a first viewings the characters to me resonate characters from Woody Allen films. It was a beautiful film and a great film experience. My only complaints would be that the supposed time period adds very little to the film, apart from the war and I felt the ending was a little quick. But aside from that, a stunning good film.
shareIt's so great to read someone whose tastes seem to match mine spot on! I do indeed agree with you that "Vertigo" is the best movie ever, ex aequo with "2001: A Space Odyssey"!!! ... And "Jules et Jim" is certainly among the 25 best movies I have ever seen too. The only thing that detracts from my ranking him, let's say, among the 10 best movies (although I rated it 10, I rounded up a 9.5 rating), is the somewhat declamatory tone that is a little annoying (French is my first language). Even Jeanne Moreau, who was a very accomplished actress at the time, sounds very Truffaut-ized at times.
It's a general problem with Truffaut's movies (except for some untypical movies of his such as "L'Histoire d'Adele H", another of his masterpieces). The actors always talk with that artificial, somewhat disembodied tone, as though they were reciting a text without injecting personal feelings in it, as though they were all Jean-Pierre Léaud's clones :-0). Of course, one gets used to it (it becomes the "Truffaut way" of speaking) but for a native French speaker, it certainly sounds contrived and makes all characters sound like a bunch of salon intellectuals. It's the kind of movie that, given the right director, might benefit from a remake with better actors.
Nevertheless, despite the problems with the way characters speak, "Jules et Jim" is a fantastically rich and moving depiction of the complexities of love, jealousy and friendship, and is unique in the way it treats the difficult topic of love triangles (although they never form an actual triangle at any time, at least not explicitly).