Jules et Jim

Modern Film Scripts

by François Truffaut, Henri-Pierre Roché (Adapted From)

Book by Francois Truffaut

Genres: Film, France, Romance, Classics

155 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1962

About the author

François Roland Truffaut was an award-winning and influential filmmaker, critically acclaimed worldwide. He was also a talented and sought-after film critic in France (most notably, his work for Cahiers du Cinema), and one of the founders of the French New Wave and the auteur theory; he remains an icon of the French film industry. In a film career lasting over a quarter of a century, he was also a screenwriter, producer or occasional actor in over twenty-five films.

Reviews

[Ludmilla · Rating 4 out of 5]

Nisan Yayınları ne güzel işler yapmış zamanında, böyle bir yayınevinin yaşamasını sağlayamamak da bizim ayıbımız olsun.
Jules ve Jim benim en sevdiğim filmlerden biri, bugünü de nostalji yaparak geçirdim, şahane oldu.

[Paul Secor · Rating 5 out of 5]

One of the early films that made Truffaut my favorite director. And the sentiment has never changed.

[notgettingenough · Rating 1 out of 5]

Re the Other movie, I understand also supposed to be a classic, Pompous Muriel and her Utterly Dreary Sister.

I have no idea if the scene in which Muriel confesses that she has been a practictioner of the art of onanism since she was a small girl is supposed to be moving. In practice it is hilarious. All the sex is. Where she decides to lose her virginity to Claude (honestly, what WAS she thinking of), I can't imagine how she had the strength to walk out afterwards, the bed was just covered in her blood.

Still, there it is. The Confession. As it happens I was listing this book the next day...

Teasley, D.O Where Do They Come From?: A book for children, explaining in simple, modest words the mystery of the origin of life and the sacredness of procreation.

An American publication of WWI vintage. It was thus inscribed on the front free endpaper ‘Presented to my boy Martin on his thirteenth birthday with the sincere wish that God by his grace may guard him against secret sins that harm both body and soul. From his father October 17th 1919’. There is a little pencil underlining, mostly in sections concerned with ‘this vile practice of abusing the private parts of your body’.

If only Muriel's mother had been a more responsible person and given her this tome early in life. Or prevented her from sleeping with little girls who were so practised in the arts of touching oneself up.

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Let's all join hands and run around in a circle chanting:

Verse one:

Truffaut is a wanker, Truffaut is a wanker.

Verse two:

Jim and Jules are wankers. Jim and Jules are wankers. Catherine is one too-oo, Catherine's one too.

Verse three re Muriel and Anne:

The girls and Claude are wankers. The girls and Claude are wankers*.

Chorus: As for Roche. Geez. Numero uno wanker.

End.

* I'm sorry, this is a bit of a spoiler since Muriel is oh so literally a wanker, having spent nights in bed at the age of 8 with another 8 year old girl naked and lasciviously discovering the joys of masturbation. She suffers the entire film for it, but why oh why should we?

The more I think about it, the more respect I have for Russ Meyer. http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/... More big-breasted women in sticky situations fighting their way out. Pl-eeasssee.

[Shane · Rating 4 out of 5]

I read this for my french film class back in 2004 as a companion to the film. I had never read a "script" so to speak, along with a film, but I'd have to say it was pretty interesting to read the dialogue along with the director's um, directions.

[TWA]

I have convinced myself that reading books in French will help me learn French. Hmm.

[adam · Rating 5 out of 5]

𝙔𝙤𝙪 𝙩𝙤𝙡𝙙 𝙢𝙚: "𝙄 𝙡𝙤𝙫𝙚 𝙮𝙤𝙪." - 𝙄 𝙩𝙤𝙡𝙙 𝙮𝙤𝙪: "𝙒𝙖𝙞𝙩." - 𝙄 𝙖𝙡𝙢𝙤𝙨𝙩 𝙨𝙖𝙞𝙙: "𝙔𝙚𝙨."

[Leonardo · Rating 3 out of 5]

3,75*
Bom livro, porém se torna muito repetitivo. Afora isso, é uma boa edição, que contempla tanto a obra literária quanto o filme de Truffaut.