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Original title: Un long dimanche de fiançailles
Release Date
• USA: Dec 17, 2004
• UK: 21 Jan 2005
DVD Release Date
• R1: Jul 12, 2005
Budget $55,000,000
BoxOffice: $4.9M
Official Website:
A Very Long Engagement Website
MPAA Rating
Rated R for violence and sexuality.
Running Time
2 hours, 14 minutes
Country France, USA
Studio Warner Independent
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Other Titles
• A Very Long Engagement
• Un long dimanche de fiançailles (2004)
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Genre: Mystery, Romance, War, Drama, World War I, Tragedy, Period Piece, Love, Experimental, Infidelity, Detectives
Tagline: Never let go
Plot: This World War I mystery finds limitless beauty in the nostalgia of loss. Directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet, whose whimsical AMELIE riveted audiences, A VERY LONG ENGAGEMENT also stars Audrey Tautou--the 21st century's Audrey Hepburn--in the stubbornly emotional role of a widow in denial. Here she is Mathilde, a waifish young woman with a pronounced limp from childhood polio. Living with her quirky aunt and uncle in a farmhouse by the sea, and waiting desperately for her fiance Manech (Gaspard Ulliel) to return from the war, she believes that if he were truly lost she would feel it in her heart. Thus, when the bad news arrives--Manech and five fellow soldiers were exiled to No Man's Land for shooting off their own fingers in hope of being discharged--Mathilde refuses to believe he is dead. Instead, she begins her own investigation into Manech's infantry, hiring a private detective and tracking down the wives and girlfriends of each of Manech's compatriots. Conducting countless interviews, Mathilde pieces together Manech's war stories--which are told in earthshaking flashbacks involving gruesome explosions, flying guts, and massive suffering. And yet, the all-in-this-together humanity of these awful scenes, and the heartfelt bravery with which Mathilde absorbs the details of each
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Audrey Tautou
Amelie from Montmartre, The Da Vinci Code, Dirty Pretty Things |
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Amelie from Montmartre, Alien: Resurrection, The City of Lost Children | Chantal Neuwirth
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