A Very Long Engagement (2004)
Never let go
Starring Audrey Tautou, Gaspard Ulliel, Dominique Pinon
Directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet
In 1919, Mathilde was 19 years old. Two years earlier, her fiancé Manech left for the front at the Somme. Like millions of others he was 'killed on the field of battle.' It's written in black and white on the official notice. But Mathilde refuses to believe it. If Manech had died, she would know. She hangs on to her intuition as tightly as she would onto the last thread of hope linking her to her lover. A former sergeant tells her in vain that Manech died in the no man's land of a trench named Bingo Crepescule, in the company of four other men condemned to die for self-inflicted wounds. Her path ahead is full of obstacles but Mathilde is not frightened. Anything is possible to someone who is willing to challenge fate...
Runtime: 133 min.
Rating: 7.3
DVD
Languages: English,French,Japanese
Countries: France
Genres: Drama,Romance,War
Keywords: paris, france,prostitute,loss of loved one,amnesia,bodily disabled person,world war i,wheelchair,lighthouse,verdun,lighthouse keeper ,airship,teenage crush,disappearance,soldier,private detective,missing person,polio,trenches
Cast
Mathilde
Manech
Sylvain
Bénédicte
Pierre-Marie Rouvières
Germain Pire
Tina Lombardi
Ange Bassignano
Elodie Gordes
Benjamin Gordes
Six-Soux
Un Breton
Bastoche
Célestin Poux
la soeur de Günther
Commandant Lavrouye
Benoît Notre-Dame
Esperanza
Le facteur
Véronique Passavant
P'tit Louis
Le curé
Madame Desrochelles
Le vieil homme sur le champ de bataille
Capitaine Favourier
Favart
Chardolot
Philippot
L'officier des archives
Thouvenel
Le médecin militaire
Mathilde 10 ans
Manech 13 ans
Narrator (voice)
Lieutenant Estrangin
La prostituée du café
L'officier assassiné
Mariette Notre Dame
Le curé de Milly
Le directeur de la prison
Jean Desrochelles
Le camarade de Chardolot
Le prisonnier allemand
Un fossoyeur
Un fossoyeur
Le sergent
Un poilu
Un poilu
Un poilu
Un poilu
Un poilu
Le corse menaçant
Le blagueur du train
Un soldat floué
Un soldat floué
L'ordonnance
La maquerelle
Le couple bourgeois
Le couple bourgeois
Le mitrailleur allemand
L'infirmière
Une fille de joie
Une fille de joie
Un brancardier
Un brancardier
L'Allemand transperçé
Georges Cornu
Hélène Pire