{"id":6590,"date":"2026-04-30T12:00:39","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T10:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/?p=6590"},"modified":"2026-04-30T12:00:39","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T10:00:39","slug":"jules-et-jim-by-francois-truffaut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/2026\/04\/30\/jules-et-jim-by-francois-truffaut\/","title":{"rendered":"<em>Jules et Jim<\/em> by Fran\u00e7ois Truffaut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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\u2019s narrative voice and Coutard\u2019s cinematography: from the rapid succession of joyful freeze-frame close-ups to long shots in stifling interiors where resentment simmers and <nobr>rebellion<\/nobr> lingers in tightly coiled springs, where the irretrievably lost is transformed into song, into art, into the movie itself as the place where failure can be <nobr>redeemed<\/nobr> as tragedy.<\/p>\n<div class=\"spacer20\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"ruler\"><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"epigraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jules_and_Jim\" target=\"somethingUnique\"><em>Jules et Jim<\/em><\/a> by Fran\u00e7ois Truffaut, 1962.<br \/>\nWatched at the Metropol theater on April 21, 2026, in its original language with subtitles.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/2026\/04\/30\/jules-et-jim-by-francois-truffaut\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Jules et Jim by Fran\u00e7ois Truffaut\"><p>\ud83c\udfac Sadly, I missed <em>Les quatre cents coups<\/em> the other day.<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-archive","h-entry","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6590"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6611,"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6590\/revisions\/6611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}