Jules Et Jim (PG)
- Consumer Advice: Contains mild language, sex references and brief drug reference
- Run time: 1 hour 46 mins
- Starring: Jeanne Moreau, Oskar Werner, Henri Serre
- Directed by: François Truffaut
- Distributor: BFI (UK Wide)
Plot Synopsis
Adapted from a novel by Henri-Pierre Roché, Jules et Jim tells the story of two aspiring writers who form a close friendship set in the bohemian Paris of 1912. Jules is a shy, philosophical Austrian, while Jim is a debonair Frenchman, confident and successful with women. Both fall for the beautiful, capricious Catherine, but Jules is the one she chooses to marry. After the Great War - in which Jules and Jim fight on opposite sides - Jim visits his two friends and their young daughter in the Rhine Valley, but the marriage is not what it seems, and Jim soon finds himself embroiled in a complex, turbulent ménage à trois. Catherine yearns for free and passionate love, devoid of jealousy, lies and hypocrisy. As her lovers acknowledge, she is 'a vision for all men, not a woman for one.