An instantly definitive New Wave text, still bracing in its intellectual energy and poignant in its evocation of love and friendship weathered over time. In pre-WWI France, best friends Jules (Oskar Werner) and Jim (Henri Serre) fall jointly in love with Moreau’s captivating Catherine. Their tendency to objectify her chimes with her own feckless nature: she becomes the woman each man wants, but cannot fully return their love. A complex, idiosyncratic elegy on youth and love.