(Un Long Dimanche de Fiançailles)

"Never let go."

From the director of Amélie (Jean-Pierre Jeunet) comes a very different love story based on the acclaimed novel by Sebastien Japrisot. 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 Breton home of the indomitable Mathilde (Audrey Tautou). Mathilde and Manech have been sweethearts since childhood, and when he disappears, she embarks on a tireless, moving and sometimes comic search for him. 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.

"A film that is a series of pleasures stumbling over one another in their haste to delight us."  Roger Ebert

"It's a remarkably rich movie, full of detail, and it grips and entertains like a detective story while never losing sight of the horrors of war."  Philip French