A Very Long Engagement
From the director and star of "Amelie" (Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Audrey Tautou) comes a very different love story: A VERY LONG ENGAGEMENT, based on the acclaimed novel by Sebastien Japrisot. Screenplay adaptation by Jean-Pierre Jeunet & Guillaume Laurant.
The film is set in France near the end of World War I in the deadly trenches of the Somme, in the gilded Parisian halls of power, and in the modest home of an indomitable provincial girl.
It tells the story of this young woman's relentless, moving and sometimes comic search for her fiance, who has disappeared. He is one of five French soldiers believed to have been court-martialed under mysterious circumstances and pushed out of an allied trench into an almost-certain death in no-man's land.
What follows is an investigation into the arbitrary nature of secrecy, the absurdity of war, and the enduring passion, intuition and tenacity of the human heart.
FROM THE VAULT
Where it played at Laemmle — 11 engagements
- Grande 4-PlexFri, Feb 18 – Thu, Mar 3, 2005 · 2 weeks
- Fallbrook 7Fri, Feb 4 – Thu, Feb 17, 2005 · 2 weeks
- Beverly HillsLumiere Music HallWed, Dec 22, 2004 – Thu, Feb 3, 2005 · 6 weeks
- Los AngelesFairfax 3Fri, Dec 17, 2004 – Thu, Feb 3, 2005 · 7 weeks
- LidoFri, Jan 21 – Thu, Jan 27, 2005 · 1 week
- LagunaWed, Dec 22, 2004 – Thu, Jan 27, 2005 · 5 weeks
- One ColoradoWed, Dec 22, 2004 – Thu, Jan 20, 2005 · 4 weeks
- Paseo CamarilloFri, Jan 14 – Thu, Jan 20, 2005 · 1 week
- CameoWed, Dec 22, 2004 – Thu, Jan 13, 2005 · 3 weeks
- Regent ShowcaseFri, Nov 26, 2004 – Thu, Jan 13, 2005 · 7 weeks
- West HollywoodSunset 5Fri, Nov 26 – Thu, Dec 16, 2004 · 3 weeks