Jules and Jim

I remember when I made 'Annie Hall,' I was very much influenced by 'Jules and Jim,' the French film, because of the way it broke boundaries in technique.

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I have to admit that Truffaut, especially 'Jules and Jim,' with its audacity and freedom, opened many doors for me as a young filmmaker. The way he dealt with emotions and narrative structure was very liberating.

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Truffaut's 'Jules et Jim' is a big one for me, and I think it really got into my head about how to use music, how to tell stories, the style of the jump cuts, the freezes, and the way he deals with relationships.

I'm obsessed with French New Wave cinema, films like The 400 Blows, Breathless, and Jules and Jim. They showed me that you could make a movie about anything, with a certain kind of playful energy. That definitely inspired Frances Ha.

I’ve probably seen In the Mood for Love more than 50 times. I really had to learn how to fall in love with the camera all over again, and that’s a film that reminds you that you don’t need plot, you just need mood and character.

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Trier learned from Truffaut that cinema could move through time like music moves through silence, restless, digressive, alive. The freeze-frames in Reprise aren't ornament. They're Truffaut's signature syntax transplanted to Oslo, a way of saying: stop here, look, this moment matters. The film's twin protagonists mirror Antoine Doinel's wandering, but Trier accelerates the melancholy, as if asking what happens to Truffaut's romanticism when it meets Nordic neurosis.