A Very Long Engagement ( Un long dimanche de fiançailles )

A Very Long Engagement (Blu-Ray) (*)

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Original Title: Un long dimanche de fiançailles
Screened, competed or awarded at:
BAFTA Awards
Ceasar Awards
Edgar Allan Poe Awards
European Film Awards
Golden Globes
Oscar Academy Awards
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
French ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )
French ( Dolby DTS 5.1 )
French ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
France ( Blu-Ray/Region B )

Running Time:
129 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (2.35:1)

Special Features:
Commentary
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Trailer(s)

Movie filmed in 2004 and produced in:
France ( France, Benelux )
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
Jean-Pierre Jeunet

Written By:
Sébastien Japrisot
Jean-Pierre Jeunet

Actors:
Audrey Tautou ..... Mathilde
Gaspard Ulliel ..... Manech
Dominique Pinon ..... Sylvain
Chantal Neuwirth ..... Bénédicte
Andre Dussollier ..... Pierre-Marie Rouvières
Ticky Holgado ..... Germain Pire
Marion Cotillard ..... Tina Lombardi
Dominique Bettenfeld ..... Ange Bassignano
Jodie Foster ..... Elodie Gordes
Jean-Pierre Darroussin ..... Benjamin Gordes
Clovis Cornillac ..... Benoît Notre-Dame
Jean-Pierre Becker ..... Esperanza
Denis Lavant ..... Six-Soux
Jérôme Kircher ..... Bastoche
Albert Dupontel ..... Célestin Poux

Synopsis:

As World War I draws to an end, a young French woman's greatest fight is about to begin. Mathilde has received word that her fiancé Manech is one of five wounded soldiers who have been court-martialed and pushed out into the no-man's land between the French and German armies... an almost certain death.Unwilling to accept that her beloved Manech is lost to her forever, Mathilde embarks on a extraordinary journey to discover the fate of her lover. At each turn, she receives a different heartbreaking variation on how Manech must have spent those last days, those last moments. Still, she never gets discouraged.If Manech were dead, Mathilde would know.With a steadfast faith, strengthened by hope and a stubbornly cheerful disposition, Mathilde follows her investigation to its conclusion, convincing those who might help her and ignoring those who will not. As she draws closer to the truth about the five unfortunate soldiers and their brutal punishment, she is drawn deeper into the horrors of war and the indelible marks it leaves on those whose lives it has touched.

Audrey Tautou, who rose to international stardom with the title role in Jean-Pierre Jeunet's worldwide smash, reunites with the director for this drama, set during the darkest days of World War I and its immediate aftermath. Mathilde (Tautou) is a pretty but frail young women who was left with a bad leg after a childhood bout with polio. Mathilde lives in a small French village with her Aunt (Chantal Neuwirth) and Uncle Sylvain (Dominique Pinon), and is engaged to marry Manech (Gaspard Ulliel), the son of a lighthouse keeper who is fighting with the army near the German front. Manech is one of five soldiers who have been accused of injuring themselves in order to be sent home; in order to discourage similar behavior among their comrades, Manech and the other soldiers are sentenced to death, and the condemned men are marched into the no man's land between the French and German lines, where they are certain to be killed. Mathilde receives word of Manech's death, but in her heart she believes that if the man she loved had been killed, she would know it and feel it. Convinced he's still alive somewhere, Mathilde hires a private detective (Ticky Holgado) shortly after the end of the war, and together they set out to find the missing Manech. Jodie Foster appears in a supporting role as a Polish expatriate living in France.

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.

This product was added to our catalog on Thursday 29 July, 2010.

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