Dive into the poetic and melancholic world of “Jules et Jim” with this superb Poster. Discover the passionate and tormented love of two friends for the same woman, in this classic of the French New Wave.
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Description of this Jules and Jim Poster
Jules and Jim is a 1962 French New Wave romantic drama film directed, produced, and co-written by François Truffaut. The film takes place before and after World War I and depicts a tragic love triangle involving French bohemian Jim (Henri Serre), his shy Austrian friend Jules (Oskar Werner), and Jules’s girlfriend and later wife, Catherine (Jeanne Moreau).
The film is based on the 1953 semi-autobiographical novel by Henri-Pierre Roché describing his relationship with the young writer Franz Hessel and Helen Grund, whom Hessel married. Truffaut discovered the book in the mid-1950s while browsing secondhand books in a shop along the Seine River in Paris. He then became friends with the elderly Roché, who had published his first novel at the age of 74. The author approves of the young director’s interest in adapting his work for another medium.
The film won the 1962 Grand Prix du cinéma français, the Étoile de Cristal, and Jeanne Moreau received the Best Actress award that year. The film was ranked 46th on Empire magazine’s 2010 list of the 100 best films of world cinema.
The film takes place before, during, and after the Great War, in different parts of France, Austria, and Germany. Jules (Oskar Werner) is a shy Austrian writer who befriends Jim (Henri Serre), a more extroverted Frenchman. They share an interest in the arts and the bohemian lifestyle. During a slide show, they are fascinated by the bust of a goddess and her serene smile. They travel to an island in the Adriatic Sea to see the ancient statue.
After meeting several women, they meet Catherine (Jeanne Moreau), a free and capricious woman, a double of the statue with the serene smile. The three become inseparable. Although she begins a relationship with Jules, both men are affected by her presence and attitude toward life. Jim continues to have a relationship with his girlfriend Gilberte, whom he generally sees away from others. A few days before the declaration of war, Jules and Catherine leave to marry in Austria. The two men serve during the war, on opposing sides; Throughout the conflict, each fears being confronted by the other or learning that they may have killed their friend.
After separating during the war, Jim visits Jules and Catherine at their Black Forest chalet and later stays there. Jules and Catherine then have a baby daughter, Sabine. Jules confides in Jim about the tensions in their relationship. He tells Jim that Catherine torments and sometimes punishes him by having numerous affairs, and that she once left him and Sabine for three months.
She flirts and attempts to seduce Jim, who has never forgotten her. Jules, fearing that Catherine will leave him forever, gives his blessing for Jim to marry Catherine so that he can continue to visit them and see her. For a time, the three adults lived happily with Sabine in the chalet, until tensions arose between Jim and Catherine due to their inability to conceive.
Jim left Catherine and returned to Paris. After several letters between Catherine and Jim, they decided to meet again when Catherine learned she was pregnant. The reunion did not take place because Jules wrote to Jim to tell him that Catherine had had a miscarriage.
Some time later, Jim met Jules in Paris. He learned that Jules and Catherine had returned to France. Catherine tried to win Jim back, but he rejected her, saying he was going to marry Gilberte. Furious, she threatened him with a gun, but he grabbed it and fled. Later, he meets Jules and Catherine at a famous movie theater (at the time), the Studio des Ursulines.
The three of them stop at an outdoor cafe. Catherine asks Jim to get into her car, saying she has something to tell him. She asks Jules to watch them and drives the car from a damaged bridge into the river, killing both herself and Jim. Jules is to bury his friends’ ashes in the columbarium of Père-Lachaise Cemetery; Catherine wanted her ashes scattered in the wind from a hilltop, but at the time, this was not legal.