Monday, June 02, 2008

REFLECTIONS ON TRUFFAUT AND JULES AND JIM

POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN BY PETER PRESTON IN THE GUARDIAN

This era of film is filled with such wonderful memories.

Today, it seems we are in an entirely different world, artistically as well as politically, and it is not a world better for the most part.

I was very fond of Truffaut.

But I must say you missed what I regard as one of the key themes of Jules and Jim, and that is the destructiveness of love.

I found it one of his most disturbing films.