December 28, 2004
A Very Long Engagement
I will have to review this again sometime after a second viewing, since the people who sat next to me were distracting me through the first half of the movie.
Despite that, this latest effort from Jeunet is very strong. He takes a more serious tone in this story of a young girl who spends a long time trying to track down her fiance who was supposedly killed during the first World War.
The battle scenes are sometimes hard to watch, but the movie as a whole is very beautiful. The story itself begins very simply, and then it unfolds into a ton of clues and leads. All the while, everyone tells the girl to give up, but she is convinced she will find her fiance alive.
I definitely want to see it again, but I would say it's one of the best movies I saw this year.
Posted by wendytime at December 28, 2004 12:58 PM | TrackBack