A Very Long Engagement (2004)
- Starring:
- Audrey Tautou, Gaspard Ulliel, (more)
- Director(s):
- Jean-Pierre Jeunet
- Theatrical MPAA Rating:
- R
- Format(s):
- DVD
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Synopsis of A Very Long Engagement
Audrey Tautou, who rose to international stardom with the title role in Jean-Pierre Jeunet's worldwide smash Amélie, 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 Bénédicte (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. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
- Theatrical Feature Running Time:
- 133 mins
Complete Cast of A Very Long Engagement
- Audrey Tautou - Mathilde
- Jean-Pierre Becker - Esperanza
- Clovis Cornillac - Benoit Notre Dame
- Jean-Pierre Darroussin - Benjamin Gordes
- Jean-Claude Dreyfus - Commandant Lavrouye
- André Dussollier - Rouviéres
- Tchéky Karyo - Captain Favourier
- Denis Lavant - Six-Sous
- Chantal Neuwirth - Bénédicte
- Jean-Paul Rouve - The Postman
- Michel Vuillermoz - L'il Louis
- Michel Chalmeau - The Priest of Milly
- Philippe Maymat - Soldier
- Rodolphe Pauly - Jean Desrochelles
- Gaspar Claus - Stabbed German
- Philippe Beautier - Joker On The Train
- Tony Gaultier - Gravedigger
- Jean Philippe Beche - Geroges Cornu
- Esther Sironneau - Nurse
- Jean Gilles Barbier - Sergeant
- Marc Faure - The Prison Director
- Frankye Pain - Madam
- Pierre Heitz - Soldier
- Frederique Bel - Prostitute
- Till Bahlmann - German Prisoner
- Pascale Lievyn - Bourgeois Couple
- Marcel Philippot - Bourgeois Couple
- Sandrine Rigaud - Mariette Notre Dame
- Stephanie Gesnel - Prostitute
- Gaspard Ulliel - Manech
- Dominique Bettenfeld - Ange Bassignano
- Marion Cotillard - Tina Lombardi
- Jodie Foster - Elodie Gordes
- Albert Dupontel - Celestin Poux
- Ticky Holgado - Germain Pire
- Jérôme Kircher - Bastoche
- Francois Levantal - Thouvenel
- Dominique Pinon - Sylvain
- Julie Depardieu - Véronique Passavant
- Rufus - A Breton
- Florence Thomassin - Narrator
- Gérald Weingand - Conned Solider
- Marc Robert - Soldier
- Louis-Marie Audubert - Gravedigger
- Thierry Gibault - Lieutenant Estrangin
- Luc Songzoni - Conned Soldier
- Alexandre Caumartin - Stretcher Bearer
- Eric Debrosse - Soldier
- Gilles Masson - The Murdered Officer
- Xavier Maly - Chardolot's Friend
- Eric Defosse - Stretcher Bearer
- Michel Gondouin - Soldier
- Myriam Roustan - The Cafe Prostitute
- Eric Fraticelli - Menacing Corsican
- Xavier Berlioz - Orderly
- Anaïs Durand - Hélène Prie
- Jean-Claude Lecoq - German Machine Gunner
- Director(s):
- Jean-Pierre Jeunet
- Writer(s):
- Guillaume Laurant, Jean-Pierre Jeunet
- Producer(s):
- Francis Boespflug
- Theatrical MPAA Rating:
- R(Adult Situations, Sexual Situations, Adult Language, War Violence, Brief Nudity)
- Categories:
- Romance
- 2004 - American Society of Cinematographers - Best Cinematography
- 2004 - Boston Society of Film Critics - Best Foreign Language Film
- 2004 - Boston Society of Film Critics - Best Cinematography [Runner-up]
- 2004 - Chicago Film Critics Association - Best Foreign Film
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