A Very Long Engagement
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