A Very Long Engagement

2004 • 133 minutes
4.3
141 reviews
79%
Tomatometer
R
Rating
Eligible
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IN FRENCH WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES The film is set in France near the end of World War I in the deadly trenches of the Somme, in the gilded Parisien halls of power, and in the modest home of an indomitable provincial girl. It tells the story of this young woman's relentless, moving and sometimes comic search for her fiance, who has disappeared. He is one of five French soldiers believed to have been court-martialed under mysterious circumstances and pushed out of an allied trench into an almost-certain death in no-man's land. What follows is an investigation into the arbitrary nature of secrecy, the absurdity of war, and the enduring passion, intuition and tenacity of the human heart. MPAA Rating: NOTRATED (c) 2004 A Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. All Rights Reserved
Rating
R

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4.3
141 reviews
Coiled Steel
September 2, 2019
Of ALL WARS - this was most brutal, and tactics were finally changed, when WW2 German Blitzkrieg, showed France, and England old tactics were dead.
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A Google user
August 1, 2012
Touching film, It will make the coldest hearts thaw.
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Marybeth Conklin
June 21, 2020
I hit this by mistake and it won't let me take it off.
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