Jules and Jim

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Movie
German title Jules and Jim
original title Jules et Jim
production country France
original language French
Publishing year 1962
length 105 minutes
age rating FSK 12
Rod
directing Francois Truffaut
script Henri-Pierre Roché (novel)
François Truffaut
Jean Gruault
production Marcel Berbert
music Georges Delerue
camera Raoul Coutard
cut Claudine Bouche
occupation
synchronization

Jules and Jim (original French title: Jules et Jim ) is a French romance film by director François Truffaut , based on the novel of the same name by Henri-Pierre Roché , and is considered a classic of the French Nouvelle Vague .

plot

After the opening credits, which feature images of the film's most important characters - Catherine, Jules, Jim, Albert and little Sabine - an off-narrator introduces the time, place and beginning of the action with two sentences: "In the year In 1912 Jules had come to Paris. He had received a ticket for the artists' ball from Jim, whom he only knew slightly.” Jim from France and Jules from Austria quickly became friends. They not only share their interest in literature, but above all in women. In Gilberte, however, Jim has a loyal partner to whom he can always return.

At Albert, a friend of Jules', they see slides of ancient statues. One of them, a female figure with an archaic smile , fascinates her in particular. They travel to the Adriatic island where the statue is on display in an open-air museum. The way the narrator sums up their experience suggests that it will be fateful: 'Have you ever met that smile? - No never. – What would you do if you met him one day? – They would follow him.”

Upon their return, they meet the French Catherine, with whom they find the same smile. In the short time they have been friends, they have had affairs with the same women. But now Jules says: "Please don't, Jim!" The happiest time in the lives of the three follows. Jules and Catherine are in love and together with Jim they enjoy a carefree life by the sea for a while. When they return to Paris, there are already signs that their happiness as a threesome will not last. Catherine jumps into the river when Jules rants about "the nature of women" on a late-night stroll along the Seine. It doesn't seem like a suicide attempt, more like an announcement of what she's capable of.

But soon after, Jules and Catherine happily call Jim, "We're getting married." But they won't see Jim again for years. The First World War breaks out.

After his end, Jim visits the friends. Jules and Catherine now have a daughter, Sabine, and live in a small house in the Black Forest. Jim discovers that their marriage is broken and that Catherine has a lover - Albert. A love soon develops between Jim and Catherine, which Jules accepts with enduring affection for Catherine. For moments even the happiness of the time before the war can be felt again. However, Jim and Catherine's relationship is marked by power struggles and acts of revenge, and is also overshadowed by their unfulfilled desire to have children. Jim has to go back to Paris for work. The letters they write to each other hurt more than they bring about reconciliation. When Catherine suffers a miscarriage, their relationship ends.

Many years later - early 1933. Jules and Jim run into each other in Paris. Jules is now back in France with Catherine, in an old watermill on the banks of the Seine. Together, the three take a car trip to a country house, where Catherine is once again expected by Albert. Both men, Jules and Jim, are not very surprised. When Jim tells Catherine on his next visit to the mill that he finally wants to marry Gilberte and have children with her, Catherine pulls out a revolver. Jim can steal it from her and flees from the house.

A last chance encounter - a few months later - in a cinema. Another drive together, rest in an inn on the river bank. Catherine asks Jim into the car, she says to Jules: "Now be careful!" She drives at high speed onto a bridge that is destroyed in the middle and does not lead to the other bank. The car crashes into the water, Catherine and Jim die.

Jules in the graveyard. The coffins containing the bodies of Catherine and Jim are burned. – The narrator one last time: “Jules alone accompanied her on her last journey. ... The friendship between Jules and Jim had found no match in love.”

backgrounds

  • The novel Jules et Jim is based on true events: Henri-Pierre Roché lived in a love triangle with the couple Helen and Franz Hessel , the events of which he recorded in detail in his diaries, carnets . It was only much later - in the early 1950s, when Roché was more than 70 years old - that he wrote the novel that was finally published in 1953. – The German writer Manfred Flügge wrote a factual novel about Roché and the Hessel couple entitled Gesprunge Liebe. The true story of Jules and Jim , which was released in 1993.
  • Roché's second novel Les deux anglaises et le continent (1956) was also filmed by Truffaut under the title Two Welsh Girls and the Love of the Continent . The motto spoken by Jeanne Moreau in Jules and Jim before the opening credits in the original version - "You told me: I love you. I told you: wait. I almost said: Take me. You said to me: Go.” – actually comes from this second novel by Roché.
  • The film marked the first collaboration between Truffaut and screenwriter Jean Gruault. Several joint productions followed until the 1970s.
  • Filming took place between April 10 and mid-June 1961 in the following locations: in Paris (where numerous short scenes were shot), around Saint-Paul-de-Vence (where the scenes of the happy menage à trois were filmed by the sea), on the Molkenrain in the Vosges (that's where the scenes that take place in the film in Jules and Catherine's house in the Black Forest were shot), in Saint-Pierre-du-Vauvray in Normandy (that's where the Moulin d 'Andé, the house where Jules and Catherine live in the early 1930s) and finally in the Strasbourg cemetery.
  • While working on the screenplay with Jean Gruault, Truffaut initially thought of a subtitle for the film: "un pur amour à trois" (a pure love for three). But even earlier, in 1960, when he began concrete planning for the film, he had suspected in a letter to his American confidante Helen Scott that the film would ultimately show the opposite; Jules et Jim will probably "through the joy and sadness in it a demonstration of the impossibility of a lasting love relationship outside of the couple".
  • The action of the feature film is interrupted several times by contemporary documentary footage. These are: When Jim returns to Paris, recordings of the elevated railway, the Gare de Lyon and the Eiffel Tower as well as recordings from the First World War for the period 1914 to 1918 and recordings of the book burnings in Germany for 1933 . These recordings from May 10, 1933 are built into the plot of the film; Jules, Jim and Catherine see her in a newsreel in a Paris cinema.
  • In addition to the liberty that Truffaut took to assign numerous dialogue passages, which were essential to him, to characters other than those in the book, two differences between the novel and the film are particularly noteworthy:
From the entire first chapter of the book, devoted to Jules and Jim's encounters with women before they meet Kathe (Catherine in the film), Truffaut has taken only a few brief scenes.
The break in Jules and Catherine's friendship with Jim during World War I is mentioned by Roché in just one short paragraph, then he jumps to 1919. For the documentary footage of the war that Truffaut incorporated into the film, but also for the one about it lying commentary and two short scenes - a meeting between Jim and Gilberte, a letter from Jule to Catherine - have no equivalent in the book.
  • Jean Gruault had the idea of ​​using paintings by Pablo Picasso to provide visual references to the chronology of the plot . A total of thirteen pictures by Picasso from the years 1900 to 1923 found a place in the decorations .
  • The film was released in cinemas in the Federal Republic of Germany on February 23, 1962, and was first broadcast on May 8, 1974 on ARD .

reviews

  • Lexicon of international film : "Truffaut's film describes the fatally ending story of their love for three with eminent sensitivity for the nuances of the human-emotional as well as the cinematic-optical. The sensitive camera work and the flowing editing also contribute to the aesthetic pleasure."
  • Prisma Online: "A masterpiece of film history, staged by star director François Truffaut and garnished with historical shots of Parisian life before the Second World War."
  • Frankfurter Rundschau , Frankfurt am Main: "An intelligent film (...) that doesn't fit into any template."
  • Süddeutsche Zeitung , Munich: "Versatile broken poetry ranging from naïve exuberance to gloomy, elegiac tones."
  • Evangelischer Filmbeprüfer, Munich (criticism no. 126/1962): "The concepts of marriage, love and responsibility towards one's own child are so perverted in this work from the French «New Wave» that, despite its artistic values ​​- condensing visual language, parodic and caricaturing traits - can only say a resounding no to him."

awards

film music

  • Jules et Jim. Gang originals you film . Philips, medium 432.728 BE, 1962. – Then also the chanson Le tourbillon (de la vie) , sung by Jeanne Moreau.
  • Jules et Jim & La Cloche Thibetaine. Gang originals you film . Prometheus, Mechelen 1989, PCD 103. - Original recordings conducted by Georges Delerue.

synchronization

The German dubbed version was created by Berliner Synchron GmbH , the dialogues were written by Heinz Giese and Klaus von Wahl directed the dialogues .

role actor voice actor
Catherine Jeanne Moreau Eva Catherine Schultz
Jules Oscar Werner Michael Chevalier
Jim Henri Serre Lothar Blumhagen
Therese Marie Dubois Renate Kuester
Gilberte Vanna-Urbino Marion Degler
Albert Serge Rezvani Herbert Stass
teller Michel Subor Wilhelm Borchert

DVD

Jules and Jim. (Part of the François Truffaut Collection 2 .) Concorde Home Entertainment, 2016. - Includes extras including excerpts from two TV films: François Truffaut ou l'esprit critique (1965) by Jean-Pierre Chartier and a contribution from the Bibliothèque de Poche series (1966), both in the French original with German subtitles.

literature

  • Henri-Pierre Roche: Jules et Jim. Gallimard, Paris 1953.
  • Robert Fischer (ed.): Jules and Jim – Film Protocol . filmland press, Munich 1981, ISBN 3886900452 .
  • Dominique Rabourdin: Truffaut by Truffaut . Harry N. Abrams, New York 1987, ISBN 0-8109-1689-4 , pp. 72–78. (English.)
  • Robert Fischer (ed.): Monsieur Truffaut, how did you do that? – Truffaut in conversation with José-Maria Berzosa, Jean Collet and Jérôme Prieur. Heyne, Munich 1993, ISBN 3-453-06524-7 , pp. 53–63. (The conversation begins with two scenes, represented in the book by dialogue and illustrations: Catherine, who has just had a fight with Jim, and Jules in the Black Forest house, and the final scene: Jules in the cemetery.)
  • Manfred Flügge: Cracked Love. The True Story of Jules and Jim . Structure, Berlin 1996, ISBN 3-7466-1333-7 .
  • Antoine de Baecque, Serge Toubiana: François Truffaut . Gallimard – folio, Paris 1996/2004, ISBN 2-07-041818-9 , the chapters Le tourbillon de la vie , Ce pur amour à trois and Les femmes pleurent , pp. 343–360. (French.)

web links

itemizations

  1. ↑ In the opening credits under the name "Bassiak".
  2. ↑ Charlotte Wolff : Moments change us more than time. An Autobiography (original title Hindsight , translated by Michaela Huber). Beltz, Weinheim / Basel 1982, p. 124, ISBN 3-407-39003-3 .
  3. ↑ theguardian.com, accessed 13 January 2016
  4. ↑ De Baecque / Toubiana: François Truffaut , pp. 348-351.
  5. ↑ De Baecque / Toubiana: François Truffaut , p. 344.
  6. ↑ François Truffaut: Correspondence . Hatier / 5 continents, Renens 1988, ISBN 2-218-07862-7 , p. 172. - The wording in the original: "une demonstration par la joie et la tristesse de l'impossibilité de toute combinaison amoureuse en dehors du couple".
  7. ↑ A detailed description of the differences between novel and film is given by Carole Le Berre in her book François Truffaut au travail , Cahiers du cinéma, Paris 2014, ISBN 978-2-8664-2922-5 , therein: pp. 42-59.
  8. ↑ The website of the Ciné Club de Caën gives an overview of the settings with the images used in each case . (French; accessed 5 October 2021.) - These thirteen images, as well as other images by Picasso used in Nouvelle Vague films, are also available on thecinetourist.net website . (English; accessed October 5, 2021.)
  9. ↑ Jules and Jim. In: Lexicon of international film . Filmdienst , retrieved November 1, 2021 . 
  10. ↑ Spiegel.de .
  11. ↑ A 30-second excerpt of the chanson on the gallica.bnf.fr website . (Accessed October 4, 2021.)
  12. ↑ Jules and Jim. In: synchronkartei.de. Deutsche Synchronkartei , retrieved April 7, 2020 .