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A Very Long Engagement
Mathilde would never accept this unknown fate after the end of the World War ! in France, she believes her fiance will still come back to her alive.
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19 December 1942, Riom, Puy-de-Dôme, France
30 June 1965, Béthune, Pas-de-Calais, France
12 May 1951, Orléans, Loiret, France
4 December 1953, Courbevoie, Seine [now Hauts-de-Seine], France
10 October 1960, Paris, France
17 February 1946, Annecy, Haute-Savoie, France
24 June 1966, Paris, France
11 July 1966, Bucharest, Romania
20 May 1965, Moresnet-Chapelle, Belgium
July 30, 2007
Filmmaker Jeunet applies his aestheticized approach (which worked well for Amelie) to a WWII melodrama to some mixed results.
July 21, 2005
a successful genre combination of a war film, period romance, detective story and black comedy
December 21, 2004
Merging heart-wrenching emotions with quirky humor and splicing bloody war footage with goofy comedy, the movie mixes vastly disparate elements into a surprisingly smooth blend.
July 11, 2005
A Very Long Engagement is every bit the fantasy, the fairy tale, that Amelie was, yet we are expected to take it seriously. I couldn't.
November 22, 2010
As in any fable, there are spires, towers and moats, and it's a spellbinding saga - a macabre dance choreographed by its romance's throbbing heart. Mathilde and Manech's love left its mark in many places, so why not the grungiest and war-torn?
July 16, 2005
Jean-Pierre Jeunet represents that select group of filmmakers who treat special effects as their own art.
December 22, 2004
There's only so much candy the eye can consume before nausea sets in.
July 28, 2005
It's a romantic epic, an intense and gripping look at WWI, and a nifty little mystery-quest all rolled into one.
December 21, 2004
The overall assemblage is shaky, but grand.
December 22, 2004
This is grand cinema.
December 22, 2004
Tautou, as always, makes this an enchanting trip.
December 22, 2004
The comic-dramatic divide of A Very Long Engagement is difficult to traverse, much less conquer. It's simply hard to be charmed with all those corpses scattered about.