UN LONG DIMANCHE
DE FIANCAILLES
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Director:
Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Screenplay: Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Guillaume Laurant
Cast:
Mathilde: A. Tautou
Manech: G. Ulliel
Lt. Esperanza: J.P. Becker
Benoît Notre Dame: C. Cornillac
Tina Lombardi: M. Cotillard
Benjamin Gordes: J.P. Darroussin
V. Passavant: J. Depardieu
Cdt. Lavrouye: J.C. Dreyfus
Rouvières: A. Dussollier
Awards:
Best Supporting Actress (M. Cotillard), Most Promising
Actor (G. Ulliel), Best Cinematography, Best Costume Design,
Best Production Design, Cesar Awards (2005)
Running time: 134,
Year of production: France, USA - 2004
Rating: R. (violence & sexuality)
Gauge: 35mm, DVD (color)
Distributor: Swank Motion Pictures
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'Jeunet
uses the same narrative style he employed in “Amélie,”
multiple flashbacks, swift editing, vivid imagery and
dense narration…With the help of an impish-faced
star and a great large cast, he strikes a giddy balance
between comedy and terror, romance and incandescent action.'
Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune |
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After World
War I, a young French woman, Mathilde, embarks on an extraordinary
journey to find her fiancé, Manech. Like so many other
young men, Manech left for the front and never returned. His
death seems certain: he was one of five soldiers who was court-martialed
and pushed from an Allied trench into no-man’s land.
But Mathilde is sure he is still alive and she pursues a courageous
and tireless investigation to find her lover. Poring through
letters, searching for clues in hospitals and military archives,
questioning survivors, wives and girlfriends, traveling to
Paris and Alsace, Mathilde pieces together a puzzle that reveals
the absurdity of WWI and the lives it changed forever. Although
her search is often fruitless, Mathilde never loses faith:
she knows that the thread connecting her to Manech is not
broken. Her determination and unshaken faith in her lover
pay off when she discovers that Manech is still alive. Through
battlefield scenes and a careful study of life and human interaction
in the muddy trenches, Jean-Pierre Jeunet depicts the gravity
of a long-forgotten war that took the lives of two million
people in Europe.
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