Plot Summary

SPECIAL FEATURES: 

• New, restored high-definition digital transfer, supervised by director of photography Raoul Coutard
• Two audio commentaries: one featuring co-writer Jean Gruault, Truffaut collaborator Suzanne Schiffman, editor Claudine Bouché, and Truffaut scholar Annette Insdorf; the other featuring legendary actress Jeanne Moreau and Truffaut biographer Serge Toubiana
• Excerpts from The Key to Jules and Jim (1985), a documentary on author Henri-Pierre Roché and the true stories on which the novel and film are based
• Truffaut on Roché, from the French program Bibliothèque de poche (1966)
• New video interview with Coutard
• Video interview with Gruault
• New video conversation between scholars Robert Stam and Dudley Andrew
• Excerpts from a 1965 episode of the French television program Cinéastes de notre temps dedicated to François Truffaut
• Segment from the French program L’Invité du Dimanche (1969), featuring Truffaut, Moreau, and Jean Renoir
• Excerpts from Truffaut’s first appearance on American television, a 1977 interview with New York Film Festival director Richard Roud Excerpts from a 1979 American Film Institute Dialogue on Film given by Truffaut
• Archival audio interview of Truffaut by Claude-Jean Philippe (1980)
• Theatrical trailer
• New and improved English subtitle translation