(1962) dir François Truffaut w/Jeanne Moreau, Oskar Werner, Henri Serre [105 min] In early 1962, through the good offices of French sales agent Alain Vannier, Janus Films acquired the third feature by French wonder boy François Truffaut. The film was an adaptation of the first two novels by journalist and art collector Henri-Pierre Roché, which was based on his ménage-a-trois with Marcel Duchamp and artist Beatrice Wood, the “Mama of Dada.” When Truffaut arrived in New York that April, he was fêted as a conquering hero, and when the film opened, the acclaim was almost universal. Small wonder. As Roger Ebert puts it, “JULES AND JIM was perhaps the most influential and arguably the best of those first astonishing films that broke with the past. There is a joy in the filmmaking that feels fresh today and felt audacious at the time.”
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(1962) dir François Truffaut w/Jeanne Moreau, Oskar Werner, Henri Serre [105 min] In early 1962, through the good offices of French sales agent Alain Vannier, Janus Films acquired the third feature by French wonder boy François Truffaut. The film was an adaptation of the first two novels by journalist and art collector Henri-Pierre Roché, which was based on his ménage-a-trois with Marcel Duchamp and artist Beatrice Wood, the “Mama of Dada.” When Truffaut arrived in New York that April, he was fêted as a conquering hero, and when the film opened, the acclaim was almost universal. Small wonder. As Roger Ebert puts it, “JULES AND JIM was perhaps the most influential and arguably the best of those first astonishing films that broke with the past. There is a joy in the filmmaking that feels fresh today and felt audacious at the time.”