A Very Long Engagement

Name: A Very Long Engagement
Director: Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Released: 2004

Jean-Pierre Jeunet

2004

Synopsis

Young Frenchwoman Mathilde searches for the truth about her missing fiancé, lost during World War I, and learns many unexpected things along the way. The love of her life is gone. But she refuses to believe he's gone forever — and she needs to know for sure.

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Audrey TautouMathilde
Gaspard UllielManech
Dominique PinonSylvain
Chantal NeuwirthBénédicte
André DussollierPierre-Marie Rouvières
Ticky HolgadoGermain Pire
Marion CotillardTina Lombardi
Dominique BettenfeldAnge Bassignano
Jodie FosterElodie Gordes
Jean-Pierre DarroussinBenjamin Gordes

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91
Entertainment Weekly
This is a movie that considers graphic violence with a refined taste for the sensuous: Guts spill, blood spurts, corpses stink, but there is a handsome, absurdist humanity to the way Jeunet (who wrote the script with Guillaume Laurant) maps out the crossroads of human carnage and human caring.
90
Time
Can a movie have too much good stuff? Not when it's stuffed like this one.
90
Variety
Told with a blend of visual mastery and emotional intimacy, ambitious venture sustains a special melding of romance and pragmatism that should engage discerning audiences.
88
Rolling Stone
An emotional powerhouse.
88
Premiere
An epic treatment of epic themes that doesn't soft-soap its audience, but at the same time provides a terrifically satisfying entertainment.
80
The Hollywood Reporter
Jeunet provides numerous pleasures, particularly visual, along the way.
75
ReelViews
Starts slowly, but builds to a satisfying conclusion.
60
Village Voice
Boldly aspirational. It's Jeunet's stab at "Paths of Glory," dipped in a sepia bath and halfway wrenched into a women's picture.

A Very Long Engagement

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