Movie #253 "A Very Long Engagement" is another Audrey Tautou film that works. In fact, it gathers together some more-than-capable actors (Jody Foster speaking French impeccably & Marion Cotillard) to get across 5 stories ---- it's a few too many names and girlfriend's names and best friends' names to remember (and that's the reason it isn't a 5) but the 5 soldiers have something in common --- they all were sent to the front by the French to be sent out first and TO BE KILLED because they tried to self mutilate themselves to get back home to their families. Audrey (Mathilde) has a strong feeling her fiance is still alive so she goes on this journey to find out the truth -------it's like a mystery and she has to go through all different ways to get her info (interview, letter,etc.) so it takes quite a while to get to the end, but it's a nice ending scene --- it's just that the story is a bit convoluted in parts and the film is a tad long. Otherwise, a very good WWI film --- disclaimer: very violent at times, since it's a war picture in parts. There's an esp. powerful scene with bombs dropping in a hospital that's tough to watch.
Average rating: 3.681
I gave it 4 stars
A Very Long Engagement
Un long dimanche de fiancailles
(2004) R
Amelie's Audrey Tautou stars as Mathilde, a young Frenchwoman who vows to find out what happened to her missing fiancé (Gaspard Ulliel) during World War I. He appears to have died after a court-martial, but she needs to know for sure. As she looks for the truth, she discovers unexpected things about herself and the people she meets along the way. Jean-Pierre Jeunet directs this foreign-language adaptation of Sebastien Japrisot's novel.
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