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A Very Long Engagement
Young Frenchwoman Mathilde searches for the truth about her missing fiancé, lost during World War I, and learns many unexpected things along the way. The love of her life is gone. But she refuses to believe he's gone forever — and she needs to know for sure.
2004 · Directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet · 133 min · Drama · Romance · War · 8 frames
Tagline
Never let go.
Crew
- Screenplay: Guillaume Laurant, Jean-Pierre Jeunet
- Cinematography: Bruno Delbonnel
- Edited by: Hervé Schneid
- Music: Angelo Badalamenti
- Production design: Aline Bonetto
- Produced by: Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Cast
- Audrey Tautou as Mathilde
- Gaspard Ulliel as Manech
- Dominique Pinon as Sylvain
- Chantal Neuwirth as Bénédicte
- André Dussollier as Pierre-Marie Rouvières
- Ticky Holgado as Germain Pire
- Marion Cotillard as Tina Lombardi
- Dominique Bettenfeld as Ange Bassignano
- Jodie Foster as Elodie Gordes
- Jean-Pierre Darroussin as Benjamin Gordes
Production
- Country: France, United States of America
- Language: French
- Studios: 2003 Productions, Tapioca Films, Warner Bros. Pictures, TF1 Films Production
- Budget: $47,000,000
- Themes: prostitute, amnesia, paris, france, world war i, loss of loved one, bodily disabled person, wheelchair, lighthouse, lighthouse keeper , verdun
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