A Very Long Engagement

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A Very Long Engagement
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R,2hrs 13min
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November 26, 2004
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Warner Bros. Pictures
Synopsis: 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 ... Full Synopsis
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This is a movie that considers graphic violence with a refined taste for the sensuous: Guts spill, blood spurts, corpses stink, but there is a handsome, absurdist humanity to the way Jeunet (who wrote the script with Guillaume Laurant) maps out the crossroads of human carnage and human caring. Full Review
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Audrey Tautou attends the London premiere of "A Very Long Engagement" at Leicester Square on Jan....
Audrey Tautou attends the premiere of "A Very Long Engagement" at the AFI Film Festival in...
Audrey Tautou attends the Rome premiere of "A Very Long Engagement" on Jan. 31, 2005.
Audrey Tautou attends the premiere of "A Very Long Engagement" at the AFI Film Festival in...
Audrey Tautou attends the London premiere of "A Very Long Engagement" at Leicester Square on Jan....
Gaspard Ulliel, Audrey Tautou and Jean-Pierre Jeunet at the A Very Long Engagement premiere in Paris...
Gaspard Ulliel, Audrey Tautou and Jean-Pierre Jeunet at the A Very Long Engagement premiere in Paris...
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