An initially lighthearted journey of soaring spirits being broken along their own history and the end of an era, resembling nothing so much as the frantic pursuit of a departing train that can only be missed amidst distractions and digressions, on an emotional trajectory perfectly captured at every point by Subor’s narrative voice and Coutard’s cinematography: from the rapid succession of joyful freeze-frame close-ups to long shots in stifling interiors where resentment simmers and
Jules et Jim by François Truffaut, 1962.
Watched at the Metropol theater on April 21, 2026, in its original language with subtitles.