I watched it several times, convinced I had missed something on the first viewing, but I didn't find it. The middle section is brilliant, but the first third is too fast - Godard's hands are all over it - and the ending suddenly gets cheesy and absurd. After watching Catherine's tricks for so long, it just gets tiresome, and I wondered how Jules and Jim keep falling for it. Displays a great mastery of technical skills but the execution of the story is too all over the place for me to enjoy.

Technically competent and at times refreshing, but after a strong first half the movie started losing me. The interactions between Jim and Jules are enjoyable and their mutual respect feels very adult, but I quickly soured on Catherine. Impulsive, controlling, childish, frustrating. And both Jules and Jim completely falling for this woman makes them ring a bit hollow, which hurts a movie that focuses on these people.

A completely unbelievable romance with flat, tiresome characters.

Starts off brilliantly and progressively gets worse until the laughably bad last line. These are three characters I don't want to get to know, nor spend time with.

I actually believe that this film is more interesting that 400 Blows - in many ways, at least. First, stylistically 400.. is always mentioned for its ending, and this film has so much more character in style: fast editing, very hectic camera movements, short scenes, a long, difficult script. In general, I loved it from the first moment, and it's both beautiful as it is interesting and entertaining. The thing that makes the love story less interesting than fx Breathless is complexity. Sadly.

It starts off rushed fleeting through loads of information, and eventually ends up absurd with an ending I thought bordered on laughable. The characters are hard to buy into at times no matter how well developed they are and to be honest I don't know why Jules and Jim kept yearning after Catherine. And I still really liked it. Go figure. There's a joy to the filmmaking here so that even as I could see it straining to be charming I couldn't help but be charmed.

Life in 105 minutes.

Comment dites-vous........... overrated.

I doubt I can add much to what other people have said. I also really loved the freeze frames. It's impressive in almost every way, it's pure cinema. But I had a hard time really caring about the characters, despite them developing and despite the plot moving in interesting ways. A movie like this really depends on emotional attachment and as much as I appreciate everything else, it loses quite a few points because of this. Everything else is tops, though.

Both wonderfully whimsical and heartbreakingly touching.