Just seen Jeunet's new movie with Audrey Tautou, the beautiful actress best known as "Amأ©lie": A Very Long Engagement ("Un long dimanche de fianأ§ailles").
Well, it is treally worth seeing, yet doesn't surprise you so much as the very sparkling "Amأ©lie"-movie of 2001. It is a little too focussed on displaying the performance of Audrey (no objection to seeing much of her) and thus neglects certain other strains of the story which would have made it an even better film. It is three films really: a "Love Story", an "Agatha Christie"-like detective story and a very strong anti-war film.
The complex research of Mathilde and her helpers to find out what happened in Noman's Land to her beloved is pretty complicated and I would advise anyone not speaking very good French to watch a dubbed version, otherwise you might get thrown off the track. I seldom prefer this to subtitled films, but in this case I strongly advise it.
Great characters again, as in "Amأ©lie", even very small parts wonderfully casted. A remarkable and too short appearance of Jodie Foster is another treat that you can look forward to.
The film continues working in your head a couple of days on and that's a sign that it isn't anything insignificant.
Enjoy!
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0344510/

For those wanting to know more about military (in)justice applied during WW1 (which is at the core of this movie) here a website that exposes the farce of a system set up by gross ineptitude, and too often, by simple prejudice and intolerance.
The webpage deals with the scandals that took place in the British armies during World War 1, but this highly sensitve subject is relevant to most countries, of course, that participated in WW1.
http://www.shotatdawn.org.uk/
Well, it is treally worth seeing, yet doesn't surprise you so much as the very sparkling "Amأ©lie"-movie of 2001. It is a little too focussed on displaying the performance of Audrey (no objection to seeing much of her) and thus neglects certain other strains of the story which would have made it an even better film. It is three films really: a "Love Story", an "Agatha Christie"-like detective story and a very strong anti-war film.
The complex research of Mathilde and her helpers to find out what happened in Noman's Land to her beloved is pretty complicated and I would advise anyone not speaking very good French to watch a dubbed version, otherwise you might get thrown off the track. I seldom prefer this to subtitled films, but in this case I strongly advise it.
Great characters again, as in "Amأ©lie", even very small parts wonderfully casted. A remarkable and too short appearance of Jodie Foster is another treat that you can look forward to.
The film continues working in your head a couple of days on and that's a sign that it isn't anything insignificant.
Enjoy!
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0344510/

For those wanting to know more about military (in)justice applied during WW1 (which is at the core of this movie) here a website that exposes the farce of a system set up by gross ineptitude, and too often, by simple prejudice and intolerance.
The webpage deals with the scandals that took place in the British armies during World War 1, but this highly sensitve subject is relevant to most countries, of course, that participated in WW1.
http://www.shotatdawn.org.uk/
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