In this film, you will see the director and the heroine of the film Amelie in a love story is very different. Based on novel by Sebastien Japrisot author, film context at the end of World War 1 in France and lead the viewers to the love story of one girl with strong faith in the life of her lover ...
30 June 1965, Béthune, Pas-de-Calais, France
12 May 1951, Orléans, Loiret, France
12 December 1978, Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland
17 June 1961, Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, France
30 September 1975, Paris, France
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4 March 1955, Saumur, Maine-et-Loire, Pays de la Loire, France
11 December 1948, Paris, France
26 January 1967, Dunkerque, Nord, France
18 February 1946, Paris, France
20 May 1965, Moresnet-Chapelle, Belgium
November 22, 2010
As in any fable, there are spires, towers and moats, and it's a spellbinding saga - a macabre dance choreographed by its romance's throbbing heart. Mathilde and Manech's love left its mark in many places, so why not the grungiest and war-torn?
December 22, 2004
This is grand cinema.
December 22, 2004
The comic-dramatic divide of A Very Long Engagement is difficult to traverse, much less conquer. It's simply hard to be charmed with all those corpses scattered about.
December 22, 2004
Tautou, as always, makes this an enchanting trip.
December 21, 2004
Merging heart-wrenching emotions with quirky humor and splicing bloody war footage with goofy comedy, the movie mixes vastly disparate elements into a surprisingly smooth blend.
July 21, 2005
a successful genre combination of a war film, period romance, detective story and black comedy
July 16, 2005
Jean-Pierre Jeunet represents that select group of filmmakers who treat special effects as their own art.
July 28, 2005
It's a romantic epic, an intense and gripping look at WWI, and a nifty little mystery-quest all rolled into one.
July 30, 2007
Filmmaker Jeunet applies his aestheticized approach (which worked well for Amelie) to a WWII melodrama to some mixed results.
July 11, 2005
A Very Long Engagement is every bit the fantasy, the fairy tale, that Amelie was, yet we are expected to take it seriously. I couldn't.
December 22, 2004
There's only so much candy the eye can consume before nausea sets in.
December 21, 2004
The overall assemblage is shaky, but grand.

