A Very Long Engagement
Tells the story of a young woman's relentless search for her fiancé, who has disappeared from the trenches of the Somme during World War One.
- Rated
- R
- Runtime
- 2h 13m
- Released
- 2004
- Country
- France, United States
Details
Release year: 2004
Storyline
Tells the story of a young woman's relentless search for her fiancé, who has disappeared from the trenches of the Somme during World War One.
Top credits
Audrey Tautou — Mathilde
Gaspard Ulliel — Manech
Jodie Foster — Elodie Gordes
Dominique Pinon — Sylvain
Awards
0 wins & 2 nominations
See all awards →Did you know
• Jean-Pierre Jeunet met Jodie Foster as she was supervising the dubbed version of Panic Room (2002). The main roles were already taken but Jodie Foster agreed to star in a little role, as Elodie Gordes. She speaks French fluently, so she acted with her own voice.
• When casting Jodie Foster, Jean-Pierre Jeunet met her in Paris at the café which was used to shoot the scenes in Amélie (2001) which is near where he lives. Some tourists were at the café, knowing it was featured in the film, asked Jeunet and Foster to move out of the way (not recognizing them) so that they could take a photograph of the café.
• Tina Lombardi's execution scene is directly inspired by the real film of the last public execution in France, Eugen Weidmann's in 1939.
Box Office
Gross (Domestic): $6,524,389
Opening Weekend (Domestic): $101,749 (2004-11-28)
User reviews
Best movie this year
A Very Long Engagement is well worth the trip
Passion, sweetness, poetry
Technical specs
- Sound mix
- DTS, Dolby Digital, SDDS
- Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1
- Color
- Color
