Cult Proj 3

Title: Un Long Dimanche De Diancilles

Title:(eng)A Very Long Engagement

By:Jaron Segal

Un long dimanche de fiancailles is a World War 1 film about a wife that refuses to accept her husbands death. Little does she know that her husband was sentenced to no mans land ( the area between trenches in World War 1 where almost everybody died) for attempting to hurt themselves before battle so they could be sent home. She goes so far as too hire a detective to hunt and track him down. His name is Germain Pire.

     The film is about their voyage looking for him. Throughout the movie, she is told of others who were sent to no man’s land to die, and she is even told by somebody who watched her husband get shot that her husband is probably dead. However, she refuses to listen and continues looking. At the end of the film she is still looking.
This film is a tradgic romance.
Director:Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Actors:Audrey Tautou, Gaspard Ulliel, Ticky Holdago.
Awards: 4 ceser awards including best actress.

A. I ended up liking the film surprisingly. It was what I was looking for; a creepy strange film. I like how I felt confused in the end as to why she kept on looking even though there is proof of her husbands death.

B.I wouldn’t go as far as calling the film beautiful, but they weren’t horrendous. They were like most other films made in 2004, just simple graphics. I did not appreciate the violence and blood  when it was shown though.

C.This film is pretty much like an American film however there is one big difference. In American film we usually end with an ending; something we can grasp on. This doesn’t really have an ending because in the end she is still looking. I personally liked that but it just isn’t as common in American film.

D.Three major themes the film shows are: hope, love, and sorrow. You see hope as she is always looking for her presumed dead husband. You see the love in her going all around Europe looking for him. Last but not least, you see sorrow as she is constantly told no, he is not alive.

E.In this film you see the stereotypical romance that the French have. It is hopeless but you see it throughout the film. Mathilde is from Brittany, a French town.