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A Very Long Engagement: Directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet. With Audrey Tautou, Gaspard Ulliel, Dominique Pinon, Chantal Neuwirth. Tells the story of a young woman's relentless search for her fiancé, who has disappeared from the trenches of the Somme during World War One.
- (76K)
- Drama, Mystery, Romance
- Jean-Pierre Jeunet
- 2005-01-14
A Very Long Engagement. Mathilde (Audrey Tautou) is told that her fiancé (Gaspard Ulliel) has been killed in World War I. She refuses to believe this, however, and begins trying to find out...
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- Jean-Pierre Jeunet
- R
- Audrey Tautou
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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- Jean-Pierre Jeunet
- R
- 22
A Very Long Engagement. Near the end of World War I in France, five nearly hopeless men shoot themselves in order to escape the horror of the frontline trenches at the Somme. 839 IMDb 7.6 2 h 13 min 2005. X-Ray R. Action · Military and War · Suspense · Passionate. Available to rent or buy. Rent. HD $3.59. Buy. HD $10.49. More purchase. options.
- 133 min
Dec 16, 2004 · “A Very Long Engagement” opens by introducing us to five French soldiers convicted of wounding themselves; one is innocent, but all are condemned, and it is a form of cruelty, perhaps, that instead of being lined up and shot they are sent out into No Man’s Land and certain death.
Tells the story of a young woman's relentless search for her fiancé, who has disappeared from the trenches of the Somme during World War One. Five desperate French soldiers during The Battle of the Somme shoot themselves, either by accident or with purpose, in order to be invalided back home.
The movie tells the story of Mathilde, an intelligent young girl crippled by a childhood bout of polio, and Manech, her fiance who was supposedly executed during WWI for self-mutiliation.