Jules et Jim Excerpt 9: Jim and Catherine in bed, "They glided high in the air..."; "The promised land took a leap backwards" (1’33”).

Excerpt 9

 Questions

1. Why does Catherine not want to make love with Jim right away?
2.

Explain Catherine's comment: “Albert equals Gilberte”.

3. What feeling is produced by the first aerial tracking shot?
4. Describe the second aerial tracking shot. How is it different from the first? How is it related to the narration (the voice over)?
5. Notice Truffaut's technical subtility at the end of the sequence : the superimpositions, followed by a dissolve.