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Hauntingly tells a story older than the Odyssey and as timely as today's body count from Iraq.
Read the full reviewThis 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.
Read the full reviewIn its insistence on the centrality of the war to the collective consciousness of mankind, it's of a piece with "The English Patient," rather than "Saving Private Ryan."
Read the full reviewTold with a blend of visual mastery and emotional intimacy, ambitious venture sustains a special melding of romance and pragmatism that should engage discerning audiences.
Read the full reviewA long movie that almost wears out its 21/4-hour welcome, yet it's full of surprises.
Read the full reviewFlattens you with concussive detail and the awfulness of war; it plays like "Saving Private Ryan" as remade by a Continental mathematician flipping out on Ecstasy.
Read the full reviewJeunet brings everything together -- his joyously poetic style, the lovable Tautou, a good story worth the telling -- into a film that is a series of pleasures stumbling over one another in their haste to delight us.
Read the full reviewJeunet provides numerous pleasures, particularly visual, along the way.
Read the full reviewThe downside to all this stylishness: that A Very Long Engagement is Amélie Goes to War.
Read the full reviewA resolutely odd, occasionally absurd movie, but it's as charming and stylish as one could expect from this pair - if you like that sort of thing.
Read the full reviewStarts slowly, but builds to a satisfying conclusion.
Read the full reviewEngagement simply disappears inside its own enormous, intricate and ambitious design.
Read the full reviewOnly when Jodie Foster materializes midstory, delivering a beautiful, pocket-size performance as the mistress of one of the condemned men, does the film spring to life.
Read the full reviewFor all of Audrey Tautou's considerable charm in the title role, Jeunet's need for a well-ordered universe proved as suffocating and exhausting as being trapped on an amusement-park ride.
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The Metascore® designation for this movie is 76
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A Very Long Engagement is Rad!
"A Very long engagement is a wonderful movie: a Must See!!!"
Beautiful, sensitive,movie.
"Exquisite movie about an ongoing romance. The characters are well drawn, the photography splendid. Although there are subtitles, it does not detract."
powerful
"Magnificent photography tells a powerful story. Intense drama and excellent acting almost obviates the need for sub-titles.. One of the year's best...foreign or domestic. Stewart"
A Very Long Movie
"Beautiful people, (but too many of them) beautiful cinematography, complicated, slow-moving plot, unrealistic premise, and immensely boring. Be careful what you wish for."
russ
"Excellent cinematography with a captivating but complex storyline. Makes me wish I could comprehend French."
Nice escape
"I liked it. Took me to a nice place. Was a nice night out."
Audrey
"While not a perfect film, this is worth your time. Audrey Tautou is - as alway - amazing to look at and you simply cannot take your eyes off of her for fear that you'll miss something. Her ability to emote and share is incredible! Jeunet has in incredible sense of image (still and moving)and uses it to full extent here with brutal battle sequences and some sexy, quirky settings to inject life into an otherwise simple storyline."
A Very Long Movie
"Made longer by its lack of excitement. Fortunately I fell asleep for a few minutes or I would never have made it to the end, which was okay but not worth the time it took to get there."
PeterJ
"I loved it. I will need to see it at least once more because reading the sub-titles took my eyes away from the marvellous images on the screen. Also I became a little confused about the characters because the need to read the sub-titles caused me to miss some of the continuity."
Fantastic
"open your mind and your heart will follow. Try something new that you can't predict and you might surprise youself."
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