A Very Long Engagement - 15th Anniversary FILM REVIEW
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- Опубліковано 31 жов 2019
- SPOILER FREE Review of a French masterpiece, A Very Long Engagement, by Jean-Pierre Jeunet who also directed Amelie.
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• A Very Long Engagement
A Very Long Engagement just turned fifteen years old but it’s available to watch right now on UA-cam movies. It’s a much less widely known film than director Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s previous film, Amélie but just like Amélie it stars Audrey Tautou and Dominique Pinon. We also have Marion Cotillard before she was in Inception and La Vie en Rose as well as a surprising French speaking appearance from Jodie Foster. On top of that, Gaspard Ulliel gives the performance of his career.
How does this older French First World War film 'A Very Long Engagement' fair against the more famous Amélie and more importantly, is it worth watching 15 years on? Despite the film’s age, this is a spoiler free review of the 2004 French film A Very Long Engagement, or Un long dimanche de fiançailles, A Long Sunday of Engagement.
Director of photography Bruno Delbonnel also lensed Amelie, and his since gone on to work with Tim Burton and the Coen Brothers, but his working relationship with Jean-Pierre Jeunet has, in my opinion, yielded the best looking scenes of his career. Jean-Pierre Jeunet is a huge fan of a Sergio Leone, as am I, First World War love stories as this one is. But Jean-Pierre’s French take on the Leone’s trademark look is truly gorgeous; I kid you not, if you have no word of French, you can still watch this film without subtitles.
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What did you think of A Very Long Engagement?
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Didn't watch it. I love both Jodie Foster and her french.
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This review sounds like you are going to love the link I put in.
@@justemichel Oh yeah it probably only works in Australia. Honestly that was there just to give my tiny channel a chance among UA-cam search rankings.
Where are you from?
@@lamontmcleod2 I am from Belgium. Maybe I'll try with a vpn. You did a better job promoting it than the official campaign.
@@justemichel Yeah, the American campain was terrible too. I don't think there WAS an Australian campaign, but the American campaign tried to make it look like Forrest Gump or something; super schmaltzy.
@@lamontmcleod2 The link worked when I vpn it somewhere in Australia but then I had to pay in AUD - they would have known I was abroad. Maybe they will broadcast it on tv for november the 11th.
I don't remember the french campaign and I can't believe it was 15 years ago already. I only remember it didn't lead me to the theatre. I probably thought again another one about 14-18. In addition even if I loved Amélie I don't like Audrey Tautou.
Excellent review ! This is one of my top 10 movies of all time. It got it all. Wonderful photo , soundtrack , dialog , actors and the story has everything ; a love story , a mystery , action/war , corrupt bad guys , comedy , vengeance , drama , sex/nudity and a fairly believable ending. Nothing is missing.
One of my all time favourite movies 🎞👍
Me too, without a doubt.
I think that if this film had come out in the 1920s or 1930s, (contemporary to All Quiet on The Western Front) it would have been looked at as an almost religious experience. We are a bit detached from it, decades after the World Wars; but in the time depicted in the film, literally millions of people just disappeared. Literally blown to pieces or swallowed whole by the Earth.
The main character (and Marion Cotillard's) is the living wish fulfillment avatar of a generation that lost their fathers, sons, husbands, lovers, friends, and never got to find out what happened to them.
Honestly it would have been censored at the time
@@erin_3569 Quite probably in some regions. All Quiet On The Western Front was pulled from Theatres in Germany.
This movie is rare and essential. There are too few looks into the madness, manipulation, and force powers will use to get other men to die in senseless wars. The cruelty of the French towards their own soldiers is shocking.
I'm french and yes this crualty was shocking but I think no one can understand the mentality of an army fighting on his own ground after being so close to defeat in 1914, after the humiliation of 1871. It was a cruel time
@@nicolasdubus669 It was certainly a cruel and terrible time. It feels like then, generals (on all sides) really expected they could use young boys as cannon fodder and they did. I understand the French need to take a stand. It was dire times for France. I've visited the grave yard at Verdun. That silenced me for days. And I'm not French. Still, seeing the force used on soldiers, we should wonder, who did they really fight for? France or the interests of the leaders. Recent wars, like USA in Iraq clearly haven't been for their own people.
@@KootFloris the historical recent works seem to show that WW1 was an accident. No one wanted it, no one was prepared, everybody thought that the other side will cede. And then 1914 was the more destructive year of the war so nobody wanted to go back. And in France the pacifist party lost Jean Jaurès who was murdered. After 1914 even the most pacifist French couldn't refuse war anymore. I agree with you that capitalism (not the politics) found its paroxysm during this war
Thanks this is a difficult day so sad Pray for Gaspard Ulliel for his family
Thanks Lamond. It is one of my all time faves. You have really done it justice here.
I still haven't seen that movie even though i speak french and watch tons of French films. Even worst, i actually own the dvd. I guess it's time for me to push it on top of my "to watch list".
I totally hear you. I haven't seen Dunkirk even though I own it on bluray and I love Nolan (who doesn't...)I also haven't seen Joker yet because I am too smashed with work (but in particular I am after Hildur Gudnadottir's score to that film... I picked her as being a genius 7 months ago, and I was right haha).
I also have a friend who has Once Upon a Time in the West on blu-ray and hasn't watched it even though the other Leone movies are his favourites.
I think it can be like that... you often don't want to watch something at the "wrong" time, so you don't watch it at all. Just pick an evening and get into it!
Thanks for your comment!
Gaspard Ulliel (Manech) died 2 days ago at 37
Thanks for the review.
Fantastic movie 👍
Bernadotte learned Swedish to become King, you learned French to celebrate France culture. Respect
Your comments re Gaspard Ulliel sound very prophetic given his recent sad death.
preach, brother...
ill get my self a copy now. Do you like the french comady's made by Dany Boon? i love them
Um, I'm not sure I've seen them. I know who he is but I don't think I've seen those.
I'm french, from North of France and his movies are just full of clichés
Repose en paix Gaspard....
I think this movie is just too french
How can someone be "too french" ?
Nothing better than a French point of view to talk about the French. We are never better served than by ourselves.