Kirpianuscus a rare film. for the soft images and delicate acting. for the theme of love in war time and the manner to do it different but other illustrations of same subject. for a splendid chemistry between the lead actors and for the mix between story, colors and the flavor of fairy tale. Audrey Tatou does an admirable job. not only for the magic realism of the trip of Mathilde but for the force of silence. short, a kind of oasis. for ball of memories, emotions and challenges. for romanticism. and for the precise delicacy of a story about the essence of each war - the small lives of ordinary people and theirs dedication to discover the truth. sure, the theme is far to be new. but Jeunet gives to it the right tone, colors and actors.

billcurry-24603 I think the movie's more of an anti war protest than a period romance. Also, I had trouble with keeping up with who was whom. The French soundtrack track was so low I could barely hear it. The worst, though, was the unbearably anticlimactic ending. Even with amnesia, the guy should have shown some sign of recognition, showing the audience that the woman's quest was not in vain. As it is, there should have been a sequel, with scenes like her requesting him to carve MMM. And if he shoots no recognition, just an odd attachment to it, he asks about it. She says she'll tell him later. And we're on our way. People would flock to it. Hey, Ron Howard, you told me once a script would have to be interesting for you to consider it. Here it is. PS--I'd like to be co-writer. Au revoir, pour maintenant.Et Jodie, J'aime beaucoup votre Français. Je vous ai vous sur TV5.IMDb--Sorry 'bout the French. But ts was only a bit and it was s French flick and my first review. You may cut it if you wish.

Sanjhbati M This film is directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet and starring Audrey Tautou ( famous for the movie Amilie ), This french film Got 7.8/10 ( IMDb rating ) and 85% vote ( Rotten Tomato ). It is based on Drama | Mystery | Romance , & won more than 30 awards on that time. Plot - Five French soldiers are convicted of self-mutilation in order to escape military service during World War I. They are condemned to face near certain death in the no man's land between the French and German trench lines. It appears that all of them were killed in a subsequent battle, but Mathilde, the fiancée of one of the soldiers, refuses to give up hope and begins to uncover clues as to what actually took place on the battlefield. She is all the while driven by the constant reminder of what her fiancé had carved into one of the bells of the church near their home, MMM for Manech Aime Mathilde (Manech Loves Mathilde; a pun on the French word aime, which is pronounced like the letter "M". In the English-language version, this is changed to "Manech's Marrying Mathilde"). Along the way, she discovers the brutally corrupt system used by the French government to deal with those who tried to escape the front. She also discovers the stories of the other men who were sentenced to the no man's land as a punishment. She, with the help of a private investigator, attempts to find out what happened to her fiancé. The story is told both from the point of view of the fiancée in Paris and the French countryside—mostly Brittany—of the 1920s, and through flashbacks to the battlefield.

Terrell Howell (KnightsofNi11) Exceptional beauty and harrowing emotion are what bring A Very Long Engagement to life. It's a Jean-Pierre Jeunet film set in France in 1920, just after World War I. Audrey Tatou plays Mathilde, a young woman whose fiancé was lost in the trenches and now she has made it her goal to find out about his whereabouts, and she was stop at nothing. She leads her own personal investigation, meeting many different people who all have their own stories along the way. Each new story brings Mathilde closer and closer to discovering what truly happened to her fiancé. And each new story offers insight from a variety of perspectives, giving the film's narrative a sort of Rashomon feel to it. But underneath it is a truly sincere and heart wrenching story of true love and what it can motivate a person to do.A Very Long Engagement is an absolutely beautiful film. Anyone who says otherwise has a very weak perception of true art. Jeunet does marvelous things with the camera and his cinematographers works wonders with the color schemes and visual nuances of the films two polar opposite settings. We have the trenches of WWI which look cold, grey, and very bleak. Then we have the glorious side of France including the great city of 1920's Paris, and the luscious French countryside, all washed over with a warm and hopeful sepia overtone. Yet both settings are very polished and very clean. Even the grittiness of WWI has a sort of smooth spectacle to it, giving the entire film a consistently artistic look. I suppose what I'm trying to say is that this film is most certainly European, and very, very French.But the beauty of the film doesn't end with its stupendous aesthetic quality. It continues into the emotionally exceptional story that is told through a variety of fascinating characters and all is told through a most sincere emotional eye. The narrative of the film works brilliantly in bringing the story together. It's a mystery that unfolds in the most lusciously refined way; an investigation that develops on top of the polished and golden glowing set pieces. The film lags a little bit through the middle, and some of it becomes redundant, but as a whole the plot is true art through storytelling that maybe could have just been a little shaved down.All in all A Very Long Engagement is an excellent film. It will satisfy an open minded audience and treat the artistic eye to something very special. It's a film that finds beauty in the strangest of places, and it is truly amazing how we can find heart and emotion on the cold and barren fields of no-man's land. A Very Long Engagement is incredibly well done and is a true work of art.