Jules et Jim Excerpt 8: Jim leaves on the train; shots from the sky (0'32".

Excerpt 8

 Questions

1. Why does Catherine not want to make love with Jim for the time being?
2. Explain Catherine’s remark: “Albert equals Gilberte."
3. What feeling is conveyed by the first aerial tracking shot.
4. Describe the second aerial tracking shot. How is it different from the first? What is it’s relationship with the narrator’s voice-over narrative?
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Note Truffaut’s technical subtleness at the end of the sequence: the superimpositions followed by a dissolve.