Title/Year
- A Very Long Engagement, 2004
Director/Birth Country/Year Born - Jean-Pierre
Jeunet - France - 1953Budget - $56.6 MillionGross - 90.1 Million (Worldwide)Synopsis - A young French woman with polio
searches for her fiancé who was drafted into the war.Narrative and Visual Keywords - Flash back,
detective, letters, melodrama, long-lost-love.Political/ Social Commentary – War is bad,
soldiers went to extremes to get out of fighting.Historical Relevance/ Recognition – The battle
of the SommeNotable Collaboration – Director had worked
with Audrey Tautou in Amelie, 2001, the music composer Angelo Badalamenti in City
of Lost Children, and Dominique Pinon in City of Lost Children, 1995
1. Yes, the high ranked officer is relaxing in a
bathtub or having his way with women in every scene we see him in. He
purposefully gets an order to release some infantry men wet (Messing up the
writing & making it illegible) just so he doesn’t have to follow the order.
2. The soldiers are
mostly victims in this movie. Almost none chose to be there, and the main
soldier character all chose to mutilate them selves in an attempt to get sent
home.
3. Yes, it has a very strong romantic feel. While there are scenes
that are not romantic, the whole purpose of the plot is romantic. The main male
character, her fiancé who was sent to war, is scene carving notes about their future
marriage on trees in the battle field.
4. We don’t
really see a whole lot of the enemy, there is one scene in which we see the
sister of a German who was at the same battle and she feels the plight of the
main character and tries to assist her with some knowledge she has of what happened
at the battle.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0344510/
http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=verylongengagement.htm
http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20041216/REVIEWS/41201006/1023
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