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A Very Long Engagement (2004)
From the director and star of Amelie (Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Audrey Tautou) comes a very different love story, A VERY LONG ENGAGEMENT, based on the acclaimed novel by Sebastien Japrisot. Screenplay adaptation by Jean-Pierre Jeunet & Guillaume Laurant. The film is set in France near the end of World War I in the deadly trenches of the Somme, in the gilded Parisian halls of power, and in the modest home of an indomitable provincial girl. It tells the story of this young woman's relentless, moving and sometimes comic search for her fiancée, who has disappeared. He is one of five French soldiers believed to have been court-martialed under mysterious circumstances and pushed out of an allied trench into an almost-certain death in no-man's land. What follows is an investigation into the arbitrary nature of secrecy, the absurdity of war, and the enduring passion, intuition and tenacity of the human heart. (read more)
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A Very Long Engagement Movie Review by Sheryl  (3/13/2005) |
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This movie is very French. I liked it a lot. But it's no Amelie. Unfortunately, Audrey Tautou and Jean-Pierre Jeunet might be forever chasing that one.
That being said, it's a very good movie. Jeunet tells a sepia-toned love in wartime story, where once again Tautou plays Nancy Drew out to discover the truth. I was...
(complete A Very Long Engagement review by Sheryl)
| A Very Long Engagement Movie Review by Nelson (12/2/2004) |
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The first half or so of "A Very Long Engagement" might as well be titled the "Further Adventures of Amélie," so closely does it hew to the style and story of that earlier international hit, which also teamed director Jean-Pierre Jeunet with actress Audrey Tautou. Like "Amélie," "Engagement" has at its center a quirky,...
(complete A Very Long Engagement review by Nelson)
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