This time he alludes to the art - cinema
context much more directly by opening with music from Francois Truffaut's Jules and Jim and evoking the form
of that
film with offscreen narration (delivered by
Baumbach himself) recounting the story in past tense and with old - fashioned devices such as irises and wipes and French New Wave devices such as fantasy inserts, fleeting flashbacks, freeze - frames, and jump cuts.