A Very Long Engagement

About 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.

A Very Long Engagement is a 2004 romance war film directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet. Released in October 2004, it runs 133 minutes.

Its themes are soldier, missing person, amnesia, and world war i.

Audrey Tautou appears as Mathilde, Gaspard Ulliel as Manech, Dominique Pinon as Sylvain, and Chantal Neuwirth as Bénédicte. The screenplay is by Guillaume Laurant and Jean-Pierre Jeunet.

1917, The Girl on the Train, and Angel Heart make useful companions to A Very Long Engagement, all filed under trenches. TMDB voters put it at 7.3 out of 10 across 1,377 votes and it carries a R rating.