A Very Long Engagement

Name: A Very Long Engagement
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, War
Released: November 26, 2004
Duration: 133 min
Rating: 76
Cast: Audrey Tautou, Gaspard Ulliel, Jodie Foster

2004

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A VERY LONG ENGAGEMENT

Movie Details & Credits

Warner Independent Pictures (WIP) | Release Date: November 26, 2004

Starring: Audrey Tautou, Gaspard Ulliel, Jodie Foster

Summary: An extraordinary love story set against the background of World War I.

Director: Jean-Pierre Jeunet

Genre(s): Drama, Mystery, Romance, War

Rating: R

Runtime: 133 min

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Wall Street Journal - Joe Morgenstern

Rapturously beautiful, startlingly audacious and often very funny, the film employs many of the techniques that were used so pleasingly in "Amélie."

Entertainment Weekly - Lisa Schwarzbaum

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. Read full review

Salon - Charles Taylor

The holiday season's best movie so far. Read full review

Slate - David Edelstein

The downside to all this stylishness: that A Very Long Engagement is Amélie Goes to War. Read full review

New York Daily News - Jack Mathews

There are many ways to say that war is hell, but few filmmakers have said it with as much imagination, humor, intrigue and humanity as Jean-Pierre Jeunet in A Very Long Engagement. Read full review

Philadelphia Inquirer - Steven Rea

A Very Long Engagement is "Cold Mountain" with French people. Read full review

Austin Chronicle - Kimberley Jones

The elements are all here for something spectacular – and in brilliant bursts, Jeunet really gets it – but in the end, all that potential is sunk by a terminally confused tone and milquetoast pairing of lovers. Pity that. Read full review

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BertiP.

Oct 30, 2006

A compelling film, wonderfully created, showing French cinema at its very best. It seems that some of the "American rewiews" have not understood this productions depth and style.

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AIle

Sep 13, 2018

ارتباط طويل جداً
بالطبع لفرنسا تاريخ سينمائي لا يمكن لأحد إنكاره، وجان بيير جينت لديه خاصية إخراجية تجعل الروح تحلق ليس مع الفكرة فقط بل بكل حركة كاميرا وموسيقى ولون. هذا الفيلم بطبيعته الساحرة ورومنسيته المفرطة يقدم وجبة شهة من العاطفة المفتقدة كثيراً بالسينما المعاصرة .. وهذا برأيي هوارتباط طويل جداً
بالطبع لفرنسا تاريخ سينمائي لا يمكن لأحد إنكاره، وجان بيير جينت لديه خاصية إخراجية تجعل الروح تحلق ليس مع الفكرة فقط بل بكل حركة كاميرا وموسيقى ولون. هذا الفيلم بطبيعته الساحرة ورومنسيته المفرطة يقدم وجبة شهة من العاطفة المفتقدة كثيراً بالسينما المعاصرة .. وهذا برأيي هو السبب أن يكون فيلماً مميزاً… Expand

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mapizarro

Jun 30, 2013

"Un long dimanche de fiançailles" has charm, gentleness and delicacy. Audrey Tautou has a epic role as Mathile, a young girl who knows her fiancé is alive. Jean-Pierre Jeunet's last good film. Totally recommended!

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TonyB.

Jan 4, 2006

This is probably as effective an anti-war film as any since "Paths of Glory." However, it would have been an even better work of cinematic art if it had been shorter. Some scenes are repetitive and should have been eliminated; others would have been more effective if they were shorter.

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ryancarroll88

Aug 27, 2010

The complement of Jeunet's visual style with Tautou's quirky acting will pretty much always give an enchanting product, but in "A Very Long Engagement," the story itself is much too clunky and aloof to stay focused on.

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