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  • A Very Long Engagement
  • Opened November 26, 2004 | Runtime:2 hr. 14 min.
  • R
    violence and sexuality
  • Information for parents: Common Sense Media says Iffy for 16+. Read More
  • A woman searches for the gristly truth behind the apparent death of her fianc. Alleged to have died in combat during the war (WWI), she discovers he and four other men were deliberately sent to their deaths on the battlefield as punishment for Read More
  • Cast: Audrey Tautou, Gaspard Ulliel, Jean-Pierre Becker, Dominique Bettenfeld, Clovis Cornillac
  • Director: Jean-Pierre Jeunet
  • Genres: Art House/Foreign, Drama

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  • 100
    San Francisco Chronicle | Ruthe Stein

    Hauntingly tells a story older than the Odyssey and as timely as today's body...

  • 91
    Entertainment Weekly | Lisa Schwarzbaum

    This is a movie that considers graphic violence with a refined taste for the...

  • 90
    Washington Post | Stephen Hunter

    In its insistence on the centrality of the war to the collective consciousness...

  • 90
    Variety | Lisa Nesselson

    Told with a blend of visual mastery and emotional intimacy, ambitious venture...

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