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A very long engagement (Un long dimanche de fiançailles) - Audrey Tautou, Gaspard Ulliel, Dominique Pinon, Jean-Pierre Jeunet

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From the director and star of Amélie (Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Audrey Tautou) comes a very different love story: A very long engagement (Un long dimanche de fiançailles), based on the acclaimed novel by Sébastien Japrisot. The film is set in France near the end of World War I in the deadly trenches of the Somme, in the gilded Parisian halls of power and in the modest home of an indomitable provincial girl, Mathilde (Audrey Tautou). It tells the story of this young woman's relentless, moving and sometimes comic search for her fiancée, Manech (Gaspard Ulliel), who has disappeared. He is one of five French soldiers believed to have been court-martialled under mysterious circumstances and pushed out of an allied trench into an almost-certain death in No Man's Land. What follows is an investigation into the arbitrary nature of secrecy, the absurdity of war and the enduring passion, intuition and tenacity of the human heart.

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Target demographic movie keyword propaganda

Film France French World War I Great War romance love trenches farm

Persons of interest

Audrey Tautou .... Mathilde
Gaspard Ulliel .... Manech
Jean-Pierre Becker .... Lieutenant Esperanza
Dominique Bettenfeld .... Ange Bassignano
Clovis Cornillac .... Benoît Notre-Dame
Marion Cotillard .... Tina Lombardi
Jean-Pierre Darroussin .... Benjamin Gordes
Julie Depardieu .... Véronique Passavant
Jean-Claude Dreyfus .... Commandant Lavrouye
André Dussollier .... Rouvières
Ticky Holgado .... Germain Pire
Tchéky Karyo .... Captain Favourier
Jérôme Kircher .... Bastoche
Denis Lavant .... Six-Soux
Chantal Neuwirth .... Bénédicte
Dominique Pinon .... Sylvain
Jean-Paul Rouve .... The Postman
Sébastien Japrisot .... Author
Guillaume Laurant .... Screenwriter
Jean-Pierre Jeunet .... Screenwriter
Jean-Pierre Jeunet .... Director

Cinematic intelligence sources

A very long engagement (Un long dimanche de fiançailles) official movie site
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Awards and film festivals:

Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS - Oscars) 2005: Nominated: Best Cinematography, Best Art Direction
British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) 2004: Nominated: Best Film not in the English Language
Cinematic Intelligence Agency Trenchcoat Awards 2004: Won: Best war (WWI); Nominated: Best cinematographer (Bruno Delbonnel), Best film with subtitles, Best actor with a uterus (Audrey Tatou)
European Film Awards 2005: Nominated: European Actress (Audrey Tautou), European Cinematographer (Bruno Delbonnel), European Editor (Hervé Schneid), European Production Designer (Aline Bonetto)
Hollywood Foreign Press Association (Golden Globes) 2004: Nominated: Best Foreign Language Film
International Press Academy Golden Satellite Awards 2004: Nominated: Motion Picture - Foreign Film, Cinematography (Bruno Delbonnel)

NB: French and German languages with English language subtitles
See also Cold Mountain, Merry Christmas (Joyeux Noël)
Studios and distributors:

Warner Bros * Roadshow Films

Intelligence analyst

Special Agent Matti

Theatrical report

Clocking in at 2¼ hours, this film gave me a very long enjoyment. Geddit? A very long enjoyment? Hee, hee, hee. It's not Amélie, but no other film is ever going to be. Art-house enjoyment for everyone.