Jules and Jim [Criterion Collection] [Blu-ray]

"Francois Truffaut's vibrant and adult adaptation of Henri-Pierre Roche's 1953 novel is one of the high-water marks in the French New Wave movement of the early 60s. The film examines the failure of a menage-a-trois between three people who love each other. The story begins in pre-World War I France, where Jules (Oskar Werner), a shy and studious German, befriends Jim (Henri Serre), an outgoing Frenchman. While looking at slides of Greek sculpture, a portrait of a woman with an enigmatic sm...