Le cousin Jules (1972) YTS - Download Yify Movie

Reviewed by R T 10 / 10

This movie is relentlessly simple. At first we

This movie is relentlessly simple. At first we were laughing at the lack of plot-depth, but as I subconsciously accepted its motivation and style it very slowly pulled me in like a glacier overtaking the landscape. Before long my mood was transformed and I found myself enjoying the movie like looking at a beautiful piece of art. There are parts of the movie where the action literally stops and the viewer is left to look at a fixed-frame of something that was barely moving anyway. Saying this is not a fast-paced movie is an understatement. Spoiler alert (but it doesn't really matter) The movie is about a geriatric blacksmith and his wife who live a very simple, slow life in rural France. The dialogue literally makes no difference and there's even a point where they stop showing subtitles. This movie gave me 3 very distinct reflections on my own life, the first of which is gratitude. The pace of the movie matches the pace of their lives. It gave me time to reflect on many things and in a way changed me. First of all they have almost no modern conveniences. I saw a single light bulb in their entire world and if they wanted anything, there was a manual process to get it. One of the characters spends 10 minutes making a pot of coffee. Get the bucket, use the well to get water, put wood in the stove, bring the water to a boil, etc. My first life-reflection was gratitude for all of the modern conveniences we have. There's something reassuring about the lack of aspirations these two have, both because of the lives they live and their age. Their days are filled with many small, simple but manual duties that almost assuredly fill them with a feeling of accomplishment every hour of their lives. The second reflection was to remember how much an honest days work almost certainly brings a sense of wholeness or well being in my life. The couple in the move are most certainly poor. They wear wooden shoes, they eat simple meals, they have no luxuries or modern conveniences. But they on thing they are not, is dirty. They clearly have self respect and even though their one room house looks like it is as old as they are, it's almost never untidy. The third reflection was simply that anyone can have self respect, which is probably a product of hard work and and not taking anything for granted. Go see this movie on a slow day when you are reflective, you'll have plenty of time to think.

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Reviewed by thalassafischer 9 / 10

Truly Extraordinary for a Film of its Kind

Cousin Jules is a 1972 documentary effort to capture the memory of old rural France in celluloid form. It surprisingly manages to achieve excellence due to its legitimate age and authentic subject matter; rather than feeling pretentiously performative as a phony trip back in time - those flicks can get quite boring or just come across as empty.

The intense reality of a filmmaker in the early 1970s capturing the day-to-day routines of his relatives, an elderly farming couple, upholding an agrarian European culture that could potentially be any era in the early 1900s is fascinating and at times breathtaking.

I highly recommend this film, though I suggest it is to be saved for a quiet atmospheric mood. Le cousin Jules is a unique masterpiece that endures in a rare genre which even more rarely succeeds in captivating the intended audience.

Le cousin Jules

1972 [FRENCH]

Documentary

Le cousin Jules

1972 [FRENCH]

Documentary

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This movie is relentlessly simple. At first we

Truly Extraordinary for a Film of its Kind

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