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	Very Long Engagement, A (2004): Reviews
		The downside to all this stylishness: that A Very Long Engagement is Amélie Goes to War.
		Inventive and lyrical, A Very Long Engagement is a joyous contradiction in terms: a war-torn romantic comedy.
		Certainly long and not always engaging and comes with a predictably basic ending, yet there are unexpected pleasures, moments of beauty and tiny pockets of joy to sustain you through the journey.
	www.metacritic.com /film/titles/verylongengagement (1193 words)

	The DVD Journal \| Reviews : A Very Long Engagement
		However, as Mathilde seeks answers, someone else is seeking justice — the sister of one of the infantrymen is systematically killing the officers she holds responsible for her brother's death.
		In one awe-inspiring — and very computer-enhanced — set-piece an enormous balloon hangar, used as an emergency hospital, is attacked from the air by the Germans.
		A Very Long Engagement is a ferocious film that questions the methods used in the conduct of war, an enthralling thriller with a complicated mystery at its core, a gorgeously shot romantic travelogue, and a delightfully funny light comedy at just the points where lightness is needed.
	www.dvdjournal.com /reviews/v/verylongengagement.shtml (1202 words)

	Un long dimanche de fiançailles (2004) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Plot Outline: "A Very Long Engagement" tells the story of a a young woman, Mathilde's relentless search for her fiancée, who has disappeared from the trenches of the Somme during World War One.
		Some people complained that it was too long.
		There are a couple of brief shots of people having sex in the introduction, very similar to Amelie.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0344510 (713 words)

	A Very Long Engagement (2004) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Set in France near the end of World War I, this drama tells the story of a young woman who embarks on a relentless search for her fiancé, who is believed to have been court-martialed under mysterious circumstances.
		At once brutal and beautiful, Jean-Pierre Jeunet's A Very Long Engagement is an unflinching look at World War I and a study in cinematography.
		A Very Long Engagement is a very long film, clocking in at 133 minutes and feeling about twice as long.
	www.reel.com /movie.asp?MID=139579&buy=closed&PID=10118622&Tab=reviews&CID=18 (1013 words)

	A Very Long Engagement
		A Very Long Engagement will draw immediate comparisons to Amélie, the hugely popular French film about an eccentric gamin played by Audrey Tautou.
		Although narration is usually the crutch of a lazy filmmaker, expounding tiresome exposition, in Engagement, it is a character, witty, ironic and cryptic.
		And as in Maupassant, A Very Long Engagement comes to what cannot be called a happy ending, but what must be acknowledged is an unexpected and satisfying one.
	www.azcentral.com /ent/movies/articles/1217engagement17.html (538 words)

	OFFOFFOFF film review A VERY LONG ENGAGEMENT (Un long dimanche de fiançailles) French movie by Jean-Pierre Jeunet with ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Likewise, this holiday season we're treated to the engaging French drama "A Very Long Engagement" ("Un Long Dimanche de Fiançailles"), Jean-Pierre Jeunet's heroic tale framed against the trenches of WWI and starring Audrey Tautou as the crippled young woman pining for her long lost love (Gaspard Ulliel plays her fiancée, believed mort in combat).
		It works because Tautou's Mathilde (not unlike her Amélie Poulain — "A Very Long Engagement" reunites the director and star of 2001's whimsical success story "Amélie") is someone we care about (unlike, say, Kidman's Ada).
		But "A Very Long Engagement" is a much more serious departure, pitting the breadth and obscenity of war against a more intimate human drama.
	www.offoffoff.com /film/2004/verylongengagement.php (737 words)

	calendarlive.com: MOVIE REVIEW - 'A Very Long Engagement'
		"A Very Long Engagement," which stars Audrey Tautou as a solemn gamine in love, has the kind of slyly clever title that suggests the wedding was called off because of a misunderstanding between the servants, or a freak-out on the part of the fiancé.
		"A Very Long Engagement" is a resolutely odd, occasionally absurd movie, but it's as charming and stylish as one could expect from this pair — if you like that sort of thing.
		In one scene, soldiers approach a farmer to recruit him, and the sea of grain between them parts as though bisected by a gust of wind or a blast of fate by a cruel world.
	www.calendarlive.com /movies/reviews/cl-et-verylong26nov26,2,5274195.story (733 words)

	A Very Long Engagement (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		A Very Long Engagement is the latest film from director Jean-Pierre Jeunet, his first since he achieved a great deal of international success with Amèlie in 2001.
		Released with the title ‘Un Long Dimanche de Fiançailles’ in its native France, the film is a sweeping wartime melodrama along the lines of The English Patient and Cold Mountain.
		Nevertheless, A Very Long Engagement is one of the few Badalamenti scores which should appeal to a wider audience than fans of David Lynch movies.
	www.moviemusicuk.us /vlengagementcd.htm (805 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Entertainment \| Film \| Film ruled 'not French enough'
		Jeunet argued A Very Long Engagement was filmed in France and used French actors and technicians.
		Set during World War I, A Very Long Engagement is one of France's most expensive films, costing about 45 million euros (£31.5m) to produce.
		A Very Long Engagement cannot even become a candidate for the prestigious Cannes Film Festival awards because its US debut on 26 November means it will have been screened outside its country of origin, France.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/entertainment/film/4048439.stm (454 words)

	American Cinematographer: A Very Long Engagement
		Bruno Delbonnel, AFC enlists for A Very Long Engagement, stylized World War I drama that tracks a Frenchwoman’s dogged attempts to determine her fiancé’s fate on the battlefield.
		Based on the bestselling novel by Sébastien Japrisot, this operatic motion picture tells the story of a young woman’s relentless investigation into the death of her fiancé, who was condemned by a military tribunal and sent out to die with four other soldiers in the bleak “no man’s land” between the French and German trenches.
		A Very Long Engagement certainly attempts to capitalize on this success; the mammoth project involved almost seven months of shooting, dozens of locations and a budget of approximately 45 million Euros.
	www.theasc.com /magazine/dec04/engagement/page1.html (1072 words)

	Garfield Ridge: Movie Review: A Very Long Engagement. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Engagement vividly portrays the life in the trenches, and the desperation leading the men there to escape at any cost, including self-mutilation.
		A Very Long Engagement is romantic, but in a deeply tragic sense.
		So, to sum up, A Very Long Engagement is an outstanding war film, a charming romance, but only an okay mystery.
	garfieldridge.typepad.com /garfieldridge/2004/12/movie_review_a_.html (968 words)

	:: rogerebert.com :: Reviews :: A Very Long Engagement (xhtml) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		"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.
		The movie is seen largely through the eyes of Mathilde (Audrey Tautou), an orphan with a polio limp, who senses in her soul that her man is not dead.
		After the war, Mathilde comes upon a letter that seems to hint that not all five died on the battlefield, and she begins the long task of tracking down eyewitnesses and survivors to find the Manech she is sure is still alive and needs her help.
	rogerebert.suntimes.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20041216/REVIEWS/41201006/1023 (801 words)

	DVD Times - A Very Long Engagement (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		This immediately becomes clear from the very first scene, where we are introduced to the five condemned men via a voice-over combined with flashbacks detailing various seemingly unimportant quirks of their personalities.
		Unsurprisingly, it is Audrey Tautou who carries most of the film, and she does a very good job of it, although she admittedly has the odds stacked in her favour with her angelic looks and the plot, which presents Mathilde as someone who can do no wrong.
		A Very Long Engagement is not as perfect (or near-perfect) as Amélie, and indeed the more cynical viewers will doubtless tear it apart for brazenly manipulating the audience's emotions, but the end product is one that should appeal to anyone who enjoyed Amélie.
	www.dvdtimes.co.uk /content.php?contentid=57926 (3102 words)

	A Very Long Engagement (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Based on a novel by Sebastien Japrisot, "Un long dimanche de fiancailles," as it is called in France, sold more than 1.6 million tickets in its first week of exhibition, underlining audience anticipation surrounding Jeunet's re-teaming with Tautou.
		"Long Dimanche" is an altogether more ambitious film than Jeunet's previous effort, with elements of lush romance set against the gritty realism of trench warfare that has rarely been portrayed more starkly.
		The action alternates between war scenes, related in flashback by survivors whom Mathilde encounters during her investigations, and a postwar epoch bathed in the golden sunlight of rural France.
	www.hollywoodreporter.com /thr/reviews/review_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000709635 (607 words)

	A Very Long Engagement
		Teaming up once again with Audrey Tatou, Un Long Dimanche de Fiançailles (or A Very Long Engagement for short) tracks a young woman's journey to discover the truth behind the mysterious disappearance of her fiancée.
		Mathilde (Tatou) refuses to believe the death of her lover Manech (Ulliel), who is presumed to have been killed in action, and sets out trying to find out what really happened.
		But the thing that makes Engagement worthwhile is that the prospect of a lovers re-union is never really a dream to Mathilde, it's a foregone conclusion.
	www28.brinkster.com /azfans/engagement.htm (512 words)

	IGN: Very Long Engagement, A Review
		To wit: in Engagement, a young man named Manech (Gaspard Ulliel) is sent off to war where he witnesses atrocities that exist in a world far beyond his limited teenage existence.
		Jeunet is one of the international film community's very best directors, and his career has been distinguished by movies that were as unique in form as in their content.
		A Very Long Engagement is Jeunet's best film –; if not necessarily by far – because it crosses the barrier between his world and invades ours; where his other movies felt self-contained and just a little bit indulgent, this one seems like it was made for us just as much as for himself.
	filmforce.ign.com /articles/570/570410p1.html (921 words)

	Reviews: A Very Long Engagement - Christianity Today Movies
		Jean-Pierre Jeunet's A Very Long Engagement, based on a novel by Sebastien Japrisot, aspires to be a meaningful war film about holding on to hope against all odds.
		But it would be better to describe A Very Long Engagement as a collision of Minghella's melodrama, Jeunet's 2001 French blockbuster Amelie, and Saving Private Ryan.
		Engagement, one of only a few films to examine the Great War of 1914-1918, captures battlefield bloodshed in way that will test your nerves, your stomach, and your patience.
	www.christianitytoday.com /movies/reviews/averylongengagement.html (1832 words)

	GreenCine \| product main - A Very Long Engagement (2004)
		One last thing, Jodie Foster has a minor role (speaking very good French) in the film; basically I found it to be a distracting cameo.
		Very Long and Intermittently Engaging by talltale July 16, 2005 - 7:33 PM PDT
		It is beautiful and interesting enough to recommend, however--with a warning that you must pay VERY close attention to the first few minutes that describe the five soldiers around whom the plot revolves.
	www.greencine.com /webCatalog?id=10928 (1040 words)

	Philadelphia: A Very Long Engagement
		The sweeping historical romance, “A Very Long Engagement,” is an exquisite meditation on love, fate, destiny, and war.
		“A Very Long Engagement” slowly and playfully reveals all, much like Matilde, when she does a lovely striptease for her boyfriend by match light.
		This narrative structure allows Jeunet to do what he does best, which is to build elaborate, vastly entertaining sequences that heighten the drama and keep the audience spellbound.
	www.aroundphilly.com /article-1089.htm (440 words)

	A Very Long Engagement (0312424582) JAPRISOT - Picador (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		A Very Long Engagement is a mystery, a love story, and an extraordinary portrait of life in France before and after the War.
		I first got into the world of A Very Long Engagement through the movie, and I immediately decided to read the book.
		The book is very well written, holding its different subplots and and the main plot together nearly seamlessly.
	www.picadorusa.com /product/product.aspx?isbn=0312424582 (526 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: A Very Long Engagement - 2 Disc Edition [2004]: DVD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The downsides are that the film is a little bit too long and sometimes the attempts to inject humour into what is a serious film can be clumsy.
		A Very Long Engagement does a surprisingly deft job of balancing the absurdities and horrors of war with the absurdities of everyday life and the tenuous nature of hope and history, both ever changing and prey to the unbalancing influence of the smallest detail.
		More than most, this is really a film about the enduring pains of war that linger long after the last shots are fired and the battlefields are grown over as Mathilde's journey for her lost love goes from hospitals to widows to cripples to the thousands of official forms that once meant life or death.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/B0007URSR6 (1314 words)

	A Very Long Engagement
		Dirty Pretty Things, her first English language film, was fantastic, but like her other releases, were ignored.
		It's unlikely that the same fate will befall A Very Long Engagement, as it reteams her with Jean-Pierre Jeunet, who directed Amelie.
		A Very Long Engagement, based on the novel by Sebastien Japrisot, is a sweeping epic set in World War I, about the endless love a woman has for her fiance.
	www.haro-online.com /movies/very_long_engagement.html (603 words)

	‘A Long Very Engagement’ worth keeping - AT THE MOVIES - MSNBC.com
		With “A Very Long Engagement,” it’s not only possible, it’s one of the best films of 2004.
		But one of the most memorable parts of “A Very Long Engagement” is a brief appearance by Foster, as the wife of one soldier who ended up becoming romantically involved with another.
		You don’t realize it’s her at first; she’s in the distance when we first see her at a crowded marketplace, and she has a scarf pulled over her head.
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	A Very Long Engagement (Un long dimanche de fiançailles) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		And, as one's admiration of Amélie was very much a matter of individual taste, so, too, A Very Long Engagement will find both admirers and detractors.
		Sebastien Japrisot, the film is a love story, a war story, and a detective story, all told with Jeunet's characteristic combination of whimsy, sentiment, and rich use of computer generated imagery.
		Further, Jeunet mixes the realism of the war with the idealism of the love story and then throws in enough whimsy to make it difficult to take any of it very seriously--Mathilde plays the tuba, the family dog has a flatulence problem, a prosthetic mechanical hand cracks nuts.
	www.culturevulture.net /Movies9/VeryLongEngagement.htm (552 words)

	Review: Very Long Engagement, A (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		A Very Long Engagment is Jean-Pierre Jeunet's follow-up to his international success, Amelie.
		Finally, there are the war scenes, which do not skimp on portraying the ugliness of World War I. In one shocking scene, we are treated to the image of a man covered in the guts of a comrade - and spitting some of them out of his mouth.
		For A Very Long Engagment, Jeunet tones down his stylistic excesses, which would be out of place in a story that is more somber.
	movie-reviews.colossus.net /movies/v/very_long.html (921 words)

	Amazon.com: A Very Long Engagement: DVD: Audrey Tautou,Gaspard Ulliel,Dominique Pinon,Chantal Neuwirth,André ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		In 1920, she's contacted by a dying survivor of the war, ex-Sergeant Esperanza (Jean-Pierre Becker), who'd been in charge of the provost detail assigned to escort the five condemned men to the front trench, as well as act as carrier of the last missive each was permitted to write home.
		As crafted by director Jean-Pierre Jeunet, A VERY LONG ENGAGEMENT is a hypnotic tale of mystery, official cover-ups, lies, misperceptions, secrets, coincidence, tenuous clues, guilt, innocence, honor, and, ultimately, love.
		In addition to providing some of the best war footage ever put on celluloid, Engagement tells an interesting story of a woman in search of her fiancee, who supposedly died at a little piece of hell called Bingo Crepuscule.
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