"Jules et Jim seemed revolutionary at the time, but Truffaut's revolution, unlike Godard's, implied not so much the destruction of the past as a turning back to the humanism of Vigo, Renoir and the French cinema of the 30s. The film's "rondo of love" represents both a backward glance at the best of the past and a forward glance into the cinema's future. Its enthusiasm for what the cinema is and can be is what makes it so special."
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Reprinted in A Century of Films: Derek Malcolm's Personal Best (I.B. Taurus, November 2000) Century of Cinema, pp. 20–22, 21–22
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Derek Malcolm
Derek Elliston Michael Malcolm (12 May 1932 – 15 July 2023) was an English film critic and historian. He was the main film critic of The Guardian for about thirty years and later wrote for the London Evening Standard.
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