FILM EXAM 1 TERMS & CHARACTERS FOR Jules Et Jim

FRENCH NEW WAVE (NATURALISM - the non-studio look/life being lived THE leap frog back - Chaplin, Griffith and Hitchcock old art THE PEOPLE in the movies participate in cultural life (picasso paintings)) MAKING love of movies overt Emphasis on personal element (cinema of the auteur)
Enthusiasm for cinema
Began writing film critisism - Truffaut saw 20 films a week and wrote about them. (if you cant watch a film three times to analyze it -you dont like movies)
This french new wave created the film culture
FIlm directors didn't look down on the people writing their films - but had engaged and rich dialogue w/ their critics

4 Film style reflects life-style of characters; often spontaneous with rough texture

Inventiveness with film style - they leap frogged back and break into a film that is very small - he was notcied by tough critism of established people

–adjective1.Grammar.a.(of a verb) taking a subject and object with identical referents, as shave in I shave myself.b.(of a pronoun) used as an object to refer to the subject of a verb, as myself in I shave myself.2.reflex; responsive.

4 Film style reflects life-style of characters; often spontaneous with rough textureOPEN TEXTURE - you can have discussions about how people ought to drive- it's RAW ... people are talking about what they're doing in a regular sense .. even making fun of what they are doing seriously.

Between 59-62 a hundred french people got to make their shot/film from the festivals

JULES AND JIM by Truffaut (1961) (ALL TIME BEST LIST - not an easy piece - narrative rather than drama)"Bohemian Paris" - artist intellectuals who live outside other constraints -

JULES AND JIM -- Style of the film = life style of the characters (lang. is brilliant) modernist notion of subjectivity how they

Oskar Werner - the guy who is obsessed with Catherine and is willing to let her and his best friend be together just to have her with him

A man with nearly higher values.. does have another woman. and wnats to free himself from catherine

Jeanne Moreau- free spirited crazy woman.

Truffaut doesn't like good vs evil - like realistic and real life FRANCOIS TRUFFAUT - (1932-84) 1) Concern for audience (like Hitchcock) aware of audiences demands/doesnt do anything unless he beleives in it
2) Themes: Value of friendship Sympathetic handling of characters like RenioirTruffaut's great theme is FREEDOM VS. AUTHORITY

Jump cuts - continuity is broken detailed shot by putting foot on gas pedal -