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Long dimanche de fiançailles (Motion picture)

A very long engagement = Un long dimanche de fiançailles / Warner Independent Pictures ; 2003 Productions et Warner Bros Pictures présentent une production 2003 Productions ; produit par Jean Pierre Jeunet et Francis Boespflug ; une co-production Warner Bros France, Tapioca Films et TF1 Films Production avec la participation de Canal+ ; scenario, Jean Pierre Jeunet, Guillaume Laurant ; dialogues, Guillaume Laurant ; un film de Jean Pierre Jeunet.

[Paris] : 2003 Productions ; Burbank, CA : Distributed by Warner Home Video, ©2005.

2 videodiscs (133 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

4 3/4 in.

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In 1920, country girl Mathilde is living in Brittany with her aunt and uncle when she learns that her fiancé Manech was one of five French soldiers condemned to a barbarous death by their own side. Court-martialed for intentionally wounding themselves, their punishment is to be thrown into no man's land, unarmed and with their hands tied behind their backs. But Manech may have survived. Hiring a dogged old bird of a private detective and a lawyer to aid her, Mathilde is off on an adventure. She pursues her sleuthing through a flurry of letters, documents, and private interviews--hunting down the soldiers who were in the trenches with Manech--along with their lovers and relatives. She also discovers that she has a sort of doppelgänger: a Corsican prostitute pursuing a parallel investigation for another of the five, and murdering anyone who did her own beloved mate wrong. Mathilde will have to hurry to follow the clues piecing the story together before they are lost forever.

D'après le roman de [After the novel by] Sébastien Japrisot.

Directeur de la photographie, Bruno Delbonnel ; musique, Angelo Badalamenti ; montage [editor], Hervé Schneid ; costumes, Madeline Fontaine ; décor, Aline Bonetto.

Audrey Tautou, Gaspard Ulliel, Dominique Pinon, Chantal Neuwirth, André Dussollier, Ticky Holgado, Marion Cotillard, Dominique Bettenfeld, Jodie Foster, Jean Pierre Darroussin, Clovis Cornillac, Jean Pierre Becker, Denis Lavant, Jerôme Kircher, Albert Dupontel, Jean Paul Rouve, Elina Lowensohn, Julie Depardieu, Michel Vuillermoz, Urbain Cancelier, Maud Rayer, Michel Robin, Tcheky Karyo, Jean Claude Dreyfus, Phillippe Duquesne, Bouli Lanners, Stéphane Butet, Christian Pereira, François Levantal, Patrick Paroux, Solène Le Pechon, Virgil Leclaire, et la voix de Florence Thomassin.

Originally produced as a French motion picture in 2004.

DVD, NTSC; Region 1, Dolby Digital 5.1 surround; widescreen presentation preserving the 2.35:1 aspect ratio of its original theatrical exhibition, enhanced for widescreen televisions.

In French with optional subtitles in English, French or Spanish; closed-captioned in English.

Winner, 2005 Cesar Awards for Meilleure photographie [Best Cinematography]: Bruno Delbonnel; Meilleurs costumes [Best Costume Design]: Madeline Fontaine; Meilleurs décors [Best Production Design]: Aline Bonetto; Meilleur second rôle féminin [Best Supporting Actress]: Marion Cotillard; Meilleur jeune espoir masculin [Most Promising Actor]: Gaspard Ulliel.

MPAA rating: Rated R for violence and sexuality.

Man-woman relationships -- Drama.

World War, 1914-1918 -- France -- Drama.

World War, 1914-1918 -- Missing in action -- Family relationships -- Drama.

Military discipline -- France -- Drama.

World War, 1914-1918 -- Missing in action.

Military discipline -- France.

Foreign films -- France.

France -- History -- 1914-1940 -- Drama.

Love stories, French.

War films.

Feature films.

Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

War films.

Film adaptations.

Vidéos pour personnes handicapées auditives.

Adaptations cinématographiques.

Jeunet, Jean-Pierre, 1953-

Boespflug, Francis.

Laurant, Guillaume.

Badalamenti, Angelo.

Tautou, Audrey, 1976-

Ulliel, Gaspard, 1984-2022.

Pinon, Dominique, 1955-

Neuwirth, Chantal.

Dussollier, André.

Holgado, Ticky.

Cotillard, Marion, 1975-

Bettenfeld, Dominique.

Foster, Jodie.

Darroussin, Jean-Pierre.

Cornillac, Clovis.

Becker, Jean-Pierre.

Lavant, Denis, 1961-

Kircher, Jérôme.

Dupontel, Albert.

Rouve, Jean-Paul, 1967-

Löwensohn, Elina.

Depardieu, Julie, 1973-

Vuillermoz, Michel.

Cancelier, Urbain.

Rayer, Maud.

Robin, Michel, 1930-

Karyo, Tchéky, 1953-

Dreyfus, Jean-Claude.

Duquesne, Philippe.

Lanners, Bouli.

Butet, Stéphane.

Pereira, Christian.

Levantal, François.

Paroux, Patrick.

Pechon, Solène Le.

Leclaire, Virgil.

Thomassin, Florence.

Japrisot, Sébastien, 1931-2003. Long dimanche de fiançailles.

Warner Independent Pictures.

2003 Productions (Firm)

Warner Bros. Pictures (1969- )

Tapioca Films (Firm)

TF1 Films Production.

Studio Canal+.

Warner Home Video (Firm)

Very long engagement

Un long dimanche de fiançailles

Long dimanche de fiançailles

Disc 1. Opening credits -- Five men on death row -- Six-Sous -- Benoît Notre-Dame -- Ange Bassignano -- Cornflower -- Bingo crépuscule -- Mess hall marauder -- No-man's land -- Let's hear it then -- If Chickpea comes in -- White widow -- In this whole story -- Germain Pire, the peerless pry -- Chick has flown the coop -- Good glass of wine -- Secret defense -- Reward for information -- Albatross is stubborn -- Letter from -- Flood of letters -- I want to understand! -- Borrowed woman -- Can one see far from -- Departure for the war -- Military cemetery of -- Let's meet under -- Roaming Poux -- For France-Charge! -- Soldier with German boots -- On the trail of sorrow -- God spared French soldier -- Try to be happy and don't -- He who pries flies -- End of the world farm -- Hospital of Combles -- Stay where you are, Mathilde -- Milly expedition -- Final credits (2004) (min.); Special features: Commentary by director Jean-Pierre Jeunet [in French with English subtitles]; Trailers (3 min.).

Disc 2. Supplementary material: Une année au front: Les coulisses de "Un Long dimanche de Fiancailles" de Jean-Pierre Jeunet = A year at the front: behind the scenes of "A Very Long Engagement" (74 min.); Parisian scenes (14 min.); "Avant que tout explose" = "Before the explosion" (13 min.); Deleted scenes with optional commentary by Jean-Pierre Jeunet (11 min.).

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