We played with life and lost
No 338 - Jules et Jim (Jules and Jim) Director - Francois Truffaut Sundays. Lovely lazy Sundays. My plan for today was to mix the World Cup with some massively influential 60's New Wave cinema. My guide for this is the song When the lights go out all over Europe by The Divine Comedy, which mixes plot points from a whole range of different Nouvelle Vague films. So what does Neil Hannon have to say about Jules et Jim? Jeanne can't choose Between the two 'Cos Jules is hip And Jim is cool And so they live together The Jeanne in the song refers to Jeanne Moreau who plays Catherine - the film's key female lead. The song also manages to sum the film up in 5 short lines. However, I want to ramble on and on about it and therefore I will speak about it at much greater length. The film follows 2 friends, a French man called Jim and a German called Jules and begins in Paris in 1912. The story falls into two halves, interrupted by the first World War. The first half is the ...