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A Very Long Engagement (French: Un long dimanche de fiançailles, "A long Sunday of engagement") is a 2004 French-American romantic war drama film, co-written and directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet and starring Audrey Tautou, Gaspard Ulliel and Marion Cotillard. 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 the 1991 novel of the same name by Sébastien Japrisot.
The movie is seen largely through the eyes of Mathilde (Audrey Tautou), an orphan with a polio limp, who senses in her soul that her man is not dead. He is Manech (Gaspard Ulliel), son of a lighthouse tender, a boy so open-faced and fresh he is known to all as Cornflower. After the war, Mathilde comes upon a letter that seems to hint that not all five died on the battlefield, and she begins the long task of tracking down eyewitnesses and survivors to find the Manech she is sure is still alive and needs her help.
This story is told in a film so visually delightful that only the horrors of war keep it from floating up on clouds of joy. Having not connected with his earlier films "Delicatessen" and "The City of Lost Children," I was enchanted, as everyone was, by Jeunet's first film with Audrey Tautou, "Amelie." Now he brings everything together -- his joyously poetic style, the lovable Tautou, a good story worth the telling -- into a film that is a series of pleasures stumbling over one another in their haste to delight us. I will have to go back again to those early films; maybe I am learning the language.
That is not to say "A Very Long Engagement" is mindless jollity. From Goodbye to All That by Robert Graves and from a hundred films like "All Quiet on the Western Front," "Paths of Glory" and "King and Country," we have an idea of the trench warfare that makes WWI seem like the worst kind of hell politicians and generals ever devised for their men. To be assigned to the front was essentially a sentence of death, but not quick death, more often death after a long season of cold, hunger, illness, shell-shock and the sheer horror of what you had to look at and think about. Jeunet depicts this reality as well as I have ever seen it shown on the screen, beginning with his opening shot of a severed arm hanging, Christ-like, from a shattered cross.
The Gotham Gal and I met when we were 19 and got married when we were 25. We lived together for most of those six years before we got married. By the time we tied the knot, we knew each other very well.
Great metaphor. My wife and I were engaged for 8 years before we tied the knot. People would ask why we took so long. I would reply that by the time we took our vows we knew the pros and cons of each other and it made for a fully informed decision. Going into a business relationship with unknown parties simply incurs additional risk that could be mitigated by being a little savvy about the human aspect.
I figured out the exact age and length of engagement to maximize the likelihood of an ever-lasting happy marriage. The exact length of time and exact age when you have complete faith that you have the right partner. Mine was 6 1/2 years and 29 years old. Working out great for the last 26 years or 32 years, depending on how you look at it.
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A Very Long Engagement is a 2004 French romantic World War I film directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet (Alien: Resurrection). The film stars Audrey Tautou as Mathilde Donnay, a young woman whose desperate search for her fiancée leads to her subsequent discovery that he is one of five soldiers that have been 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 unarmed. It appears that all of them were killed in the subsequent Battle of The Somme, but Mathilde refuses to give up hope and begins to uncover clues as to what actually took place on the battlefield. She discovers the brutally corrupt system used by the French military to deal with those who tried to escape the front during her search and what happened to the other men who were sentenced to no man's land as a punishment.
All the suffering and torture of the war would send most people into hysteria or depression. However, through all this, and though her search often seems in vain, Mathilde remains ever optimistic that she will find her Manench. She must, not only for her sanity, but for the soul of her lifelong love.
A Very Long Engagement (Un long dimanche de fiançailles in French) is a French-American romantic drama movie directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet, written by Jeunet and Guillaume Laurant, based on the book of the same name by Sébastien Japrisot. Starring Audrey Tautou, Gaspard Ulliel, Marion Cotillard, Dominique Pinon, Chantal Neuwirth, André Dussolier, Ticky Holgado, and Jodie Foster, the film was released on 27 October 2004, nominated for 2 Oscars. A Very Long Engagement was shot in Paris, France. The lighthouse scenes took place at Phare des Héaux de Bréhat, which is a historic lighthouse located on Île-de-Bréhat, Côtes-d'Armor.
The Nanovic Institute is sponsoring Un long dimanche de fiançailles/A Very Long Engagement on Thursday, November 20th at 7 pm in the DeBartolo Performing Arts Center. One of our own faculty members, Alison Rice, will be introducing this romantic war film starring Audrey Tautou and directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet. The Institute will be offering free tickets to all students and faculty from the department.
A Very Long Engagement is a story that takes place during and after 'World War 1' it starts out with with four men being marched through high water in the trenches during combat, the men sentenced to death for "self mutilation" some by accident. their punishment is for them to go to war a part called "no mans land" as it unfolds the story is one of two people's love. "Manech and Mathilde" mainly Mathilde's [Audrey Tautou] fight to see exactly what happened in battle to her fiance Manech [Gaspard Ulliel]. This an amazing love story, with stunning cinematography. with a performance by Audrey Tautou that i will not soon forget, you tend to hang emotionally on to her every feeling, when she smiled i smiled. gut wrenchingly painful at times, held together by great performances, and beautiful scenery. i absolutely loved this film!
The first one being that I wasn't even aware that the movie would show us the brutality of WWI, something that's very uncommon in cinema (the last one in my mind obviously would be 1917). And it's not just a small detail: we're directly introduced to that horror in the trenches, with expositions of our prisoners who try to find ways to go back to society. And the battles are gruesome too.
This film is great because it has a mix of romance, mystery, war, drama, and even some comedic moments. I really enjoyed watching the story unfold and learning more information with the main character. The protagonist, Mathilde, is a very quirky and likeable character that you can't help but root for on her journey. I was pretty invested in the story the entire runtime and was really eager to see the outcome.
The pace is also way too high and it was quite difficult to keep up with the story, and it wasn't easy keeping the male characters apart 'cause they all had a giant moustache. I liked the main character tho and i wish the movie was more of a road trip, following her and meeting people along the way who could then join her like Marion Cotillard and Jodie Fosters charachters.
Incredibly underrated, stylistic and beautiful movie.
One of the better romances I've seen in many many years.
Bleak, yet hopeful. Sad, but also optimistic and life affirming.
One I could see myself revisiting for all the many stylistic fun nuances it pulls off.
The movie can dabble in the melodramatic at times, but it's all so very Jean-Pierre Jeunet.
Tautou is magnificent and Ulliel gives a phenomenal performance. RIP.
I actually love the narrative rollercoaster that this was, for the most part. It feels all so in touch with the sentiment of loving, of longing, of wanting to see and be seen by the one you love. The emotions run high.
The cinematography?
Bro. Top Notch.
Wrote about this 16 years ago (film.avclub.com/a-very-long-engagement-1798200236), opinion largely unchanged. There's just a fundamental incongruity between Jeunet's Rube Goldberg romantic whimsy and the earthier terrors of WWI trench warfare. Impeccable, but not my thing.
Everyone Mathilde knows tells her to move on, to accept his death. But she is connected to him; she is sure she would know, somehow, if he were dead. They have grown up together, spent all their time with each other until Manech went to war. She is sure he is alive. And with resolve and conviction, she sets out to learn his fate.
This is not an easy movie to watch: it is long, it is painful, it is often confusing, it is a battle in itself. But viewers willing to endure it will be richly rewarded with a clearer, truer picture not only of the reality of war, but also of the reality of love.
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