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A Very Long Engagement is a french film of genre Drama directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet released in USA on 14 january 2005 with Audrey Tautou
A Very Long Engagement (2004)
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Add to a movie listReleased in USA 14 january 2005
Length 2h14
Directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet
OriginFrance
Themes French war films, Medical-themed films, Seafaring films, Prison films, Transport films, Films about psychiatry, Films about disabilities, Political films, Films about capital punishment
Rating75%
A Very Long Engagement (French: Un long dimanche de fiançailles) is a 2004 French romantic war film, co-written and directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet and starring Audrey Tautou. It is a fictional tale about a young woman's desperate search for her fiancé who might have been killed during World War I. It was based on a novel of the same name, written by Sebastien Japrisot, first published in 1991.
The film was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Art Direction and the Academy Award for Best Cinematography at the Oscars. Marion Cotillard won the César Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance.
Synopsis
Five French soldiers are convicted of self-mutilation in order to escape military service during World War I. They are condemned to face near certain death in the no man's land between the French and German trench lines. It appears that all of them were killed in a subsequent battle, but Mathilde, the fiancée of one of the soldiers, refuses to give up hope and begins to uncover clues as to what actually took place on the battlefield. She is all the while driven by the constant reminder of what her fiancé had carved into one of the bells of the church near their home, MMM for Manech Aime Mathilde (Manech Loves Mathilde; a pun on the French word aime, which is pronounced like the letter "M". In the English-language version, this is changed to "Manech's Marrying Mathilde").Actors
Audrey Tautou
(Mathilde)
Gaspard Ulliel
(Manech)
Clovis Cornillac
(Benoît Notre-Dame)
Marion Cotillard
(Tina Lombardi)
Dominique Pinon
(Sylvain)
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