When Jude and Sue are just getting to know each other, there's a scene where Sue is smoking and she asks if she irritates Jude because she is so much cleverer than he is, and when he admits its true, the camera freezes on Sue for a second, very significantly-looking. Whats all that about? I never get it.
shareIt must be an homage to Truffaut's classic "Jules et Jim", which featured several freeze frames of its vivacious heroine, probably to suggest mental snapshots of special little moments that the man who is falling in love with her will always remember. There's another homage to Truffaut in "Jude". The bar sequence where Winslet is walking rapidly with the cigarette in her mouth and the smoke streams behind her is an obvious nod to the "locomotive" scene with Marie Dubois in "Jules et Jim". The scene of Jude and Sue frolicking on the bicycles also brings to mind a similar scene in "Jules et Jim," and the last shot of the film with the iris effect that isolates Jude in the frame is an old-fashioned technique going back to the silent film days that was later embraced by Truffaut and other French New Wave filmmakers. I guess it's safe to say that Winterbottom is a fan!
shareIt has been years since you posted that but THANK YOU so much for that reply!
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