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  Review by brendan o'hare ★★★★½ 5

  Sorry but neither of these guys would have survived World War I

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  Review by Karst ★★★½ 12

  I love how excited this movie is about how it works under its own rules. Truly unapologetic with it's style which is probably why it has that status of being one of the greatest to come out of the french new wave. Won't deny that it doesn't feel as though it sticks the landing. It also works at a very fast pace and trying to process all of the beautiful writing scattered throughout gets pretty overwhelming. That's more at the fault of my comprehension skills than the film. What I'm trying to say is that I am going to watch as many french new wave films as I can during quarantine because after dealing with the headache that is Avid Media Composer over the last 24 hours, losing yourself in this kind of filmmaking feels like a warm shower.

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  Review by Rida ★★★★½ 19

  All year, I’ve been watching two or three films a week, adding my inconsequential little voice to the collective opinion on a given film. But this month the World Cup came along, and I fell in love with the beautiful game. I didn’t watch a single film during the final round, and weirdly enough, I didn’t spontaneously combust due to movie deprivation. In fact, and I’m a bit embarrassed to say this, I actually sort of forgot about movies that one week.

  This week wasn’t quite so pleasant. I've been running around like crazy, back and forth and back again to university, putting together my schedule, trying to decide what I want to do with my life. Tough shit. On…

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  Review by Thomas McCallum ★★★½ 9

  Performances : 7.6/10
  Story : 7.1/10
  Production : 7.4/10
  Overall : 7.35.10

  Holy fucking shit I hate Catherine. I hate her so much that I can't even look at this film fairly and give it a legitimate rating. Her character sucks so much. None of this would fly today and it just made me furious that it happened here.

  It's a good film. I just will never ever watch it again.

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  Review by Wes ★★★★½ 6

  anybody know of any good necromancy spells so i can ask properly ask françois truffaut how the fuck he pulled this off

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  Review by mary ★★★★ 6

  I think jules and jim should've dated

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  Review by Jane Firehorse ★★★★★ 3

  "jules and jim" - the title of truffaut's beloved film - is deceiving insofar as it suggests a duo rather than a trio. however, in another way the title is honest since the film manages to unsettle - even deconstruct - a number of dualities.

  the duo of jules and jim itself is undone.

  the narrative is epic; it spans many exploits and years including the entirety of world war 1, even while it focuses on the private vicissitudes of a mere trio of lovers.

  in tone "jules and jim" is comedic, hilarious in its almost chaplin-esque presentation of the actors: watch therese recap years of her life for jim in the pub while he shakes hands and speaks with…

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  Review by Luke Kane ★★★★★ 6

  What is Jules and Jim about?

  Is it about the vein hope that life will imitate art? Jules, Jim and Catherine are shown to be art-obsessed. They exchange paintings and books, see plays, sing songs and play music, recite poetry from memory and translate passages into French and German. They mean to understand life through art. When Catherine on impulse plunges into the river, does she give Jules and Jim their first life-as-art experience? The rapid-tongued narrator tells us that Jim tried to draw it later even though he can't draw. A real life experience has become, in Jim's estimation, worthy of artistic documentation. From this moment on are Jim and Jules, slaves to artistic expression, doomed to love her?…

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  Review by dylan gelula ★★★★★ 1

  theres no more fun first hour of a movie. or maybe there is. actually probably. i havent seen that many movies. i just now saw jules and jim

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  Review by Josh Gillam ★★★ 2

  François Truffaut’s classic romantic drama looks at the friendship between shy Austrian Jules (Oscar Werner) and outgoing French writer Jim (Henri Serre), and their mutual love for the free-spirited Catherine (Jeanne Moreau) before, during, and after the First World War.

  The film has such a great visual style, using handheld cameras, momentary freezeframes, jump cuts and ongoing narration to capture the energy and initially carefree lives of the characters, before the tone becomes more bittersweet. The frank way it looks at love and sexuality was daring at the time, but Truffaut gives the story a warmth and sense of melancholy that stops it from feeling sensationalised.

  Particularly touching is the scenes where Jules and Jim, both fighting on different sides…

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  Review by iman ★★★½

  jules and jim is a love story about two bisexual men who, too shy to become lovers, remain besties and fall in love with an absolutely unhinged cool girl who’s motto is to gaslight every moment, gatekeep every day, and girlboss beyond words.

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  Review by Brianna

  this film answers the question of what if there were three people who have had sex but act like virgins