Rating of
4/4
Irony, thy name is Truffaut
SIngli6 - wrote on 04/30/11
The best way to describe 'Jules and Jim' is a 'Wuthering Heights' adaptation without Heathcliff. Another way to describe this film is as a work resplendent in irony and the artifice of love (something with which the French are particularly familiar). Yet, regardless of synopses, 'Jules and Jim' is among a rare class of films that both utilize beautiful editing and photography for the purposes of pragmatic storytelling, and utilize it well. 'French New Wave' films may have an inconvenient propensity to polarise, but if hearing a man with an exaggerated monotone (please forgive my tendency toward oxy-morons) indifferently regaling you with a tale of absurd melodrama does not make you thank the Lord God (or whichever deity you may reverently pester) for the miracle of cinema, then you should be ashamed to consider yourself human.
