Jules and Jim

Jules and Jim French Jules et Jim , IPAyl e dim is a 1962 French film directed by Franois Truffaut. Set around the time of World War I, it describes a tragic love triangle involving French Bohemian Jim Henri Serre, his shy Austrian friend Jules Oskar Werner and Jules girlfriend and later wife Catherine Jeanne Moreau.

The film is set before, during and after the Great War in several different parts of France, Austria, and Germany. Jules Oskar Werner is a shy writer from Austria who forges a friendship with the more extroverted Frenchman Jim Henri Serre. They share an interest in the world of the arts and the Bohemian lifestyle. At a slide show, they become entranced with a bust of a goddess and her serene smile, and travel to see the ancient statue on an island in the Adriatic Sea.After encounters with several women, they meet the freespirited, capricious Catherine Jeanne Moreau, a doppelgnger for the statue with the serene smile. The three hang out together. Although she begins a relationship with Jules, both men are affected by her presence and her attitude toward life. Jim continues to be involved with Gilberte, usually seeing her apart from the others. A few days before war is declared, Jules and Catherine move to Austria to get married. Both men serve during the war, on the opposing sides each fears throughout the conflict the potential for facing the other or learning that he might have killed his friend. ........

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