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A. O. Scott looks at François Truffaut's meditation on love, friendship, and sexualtiy.
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[@Vesnicie]

Wow, those subtitles are balls.

[@raspar6]

I think that there must be a second line sometimes, that's cut off.

[@mariminu8819]

best love story of all times

[@NeverTakeNoShortcuts]

Truffaut directed it, but Georges Delerue made it....

[@eunicewang4818]

O, That’s what they call liberty

[@carlosguzman-md2mt]

you go where i go

[@jorgeisairamirezsanchez4581]

El mejor plano secuencia de la pelicula

[@rsharon4518]

Adults. The Europeans have it.

[@turquoise770]

America is the number one superpower because it doesn't celebrate decadent love triangles, no matter how artfully portrayed.

[@jeandubois8810]

@@turquoise770 Fascist

[@Kaiyanwang82]

@@turquoise770 The movie doesn't really celebrate. You would know if you watched it.

[@turquoise770]

@@Kaiyanwang82 portraying it at all is sick

[@Kaiyanwang82]

@@turquoise770 nah, there is a thing called context. As OP implied, adults understand it.

[@doloreswallin4381]

I hated this movie. And I liked Truffauts first film The 400 Blows.

[@christopherp.hitchens3902]

Much like The Third Man, Jules and Jim is simply weird. Sorry, not enough to make it a classic. I'm sort of getting tired of people telling me what "great" is only to find that it's simply French. Or...worse, Austrian.

[@laughingandpointing]

I don't think weird is descriptive enough a word. I wouldn't say great, but I would say it was provocative enough to cause me to examine the origin of my own philosophies and nature and perspective.

[@redpenink12]

@@laughingandpointing I think what makes the film great is that it is personal for Truffaut, poetic, made on the fly with a small budget and not doing too many takes, using dubbing, and the fact that the film made the Novel popular rather than a popular novel being made into a film. I can see why some people wouldn’t like it because the story is unconventional. There are a lot of scenes which just show our characters living their lives, it’s biographical, rather than plot driven. But yes it is undeniably a beautiful piece of work.