“A movie,” critic John Powers has called Jules and Jim, “that enters viewers’ lives like a lover.” In his masterpiece writer-director Francois Truffaut, just turning 30, never stacks ...

Jules and Jim (Janus) are friends. Jules is short and round and Austrian. Jim is tall and skinny and French. They live in Paris of 1912, and are almost as young as they feel. All day they write ...

In the carefree days before World War I, introverted Austrian author Jules strikes up a friendship with the exuberant Frenchman Jim and both men fall for the impulsive and beautiful Catherine.