A very long engagement

[Olham 164]

Just watching the French/American movie "A very long engagement"

 

It begins and is in parts about WW1, and the beginning is rather sad.

But it is also about life, and is very full of good phantasy and pictures and good humour.

An outstanding, special movie, full of love to the old world, to old things.

 

Here's Wikipedia about it:

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Very_Long_Engagement

 

I recommend it to those, who really SEE pictures.

[Von Paulus 8]

One of my favorites regarding WWI background.

[+Polovski 460]

Yeah great film with a good story. Also good for male or female viewers for a change :)

[SirMike1983 3]

Saw it in the movie theater when it came to the US. I went with a friend who loved Amelie and said it was just like that except in WW1. It's much, much darker than that. It was a decent movie. I've yet to see a WW1 movie better than the 1930 version of All Quiet on the Western Front. There was something about that particular incarnation that made it good-- perhaps it was that the war was still fresh in people's memories, which prevented turning it into some kind of romantic cartoonesque waste.

Edited December 27, 2009 by SirMike1983

[Olham 164]

What impressed me much, where some trench war details, like the granade coming down

right next to the trench, burying the soldiers near the impact; or the big shrapnell splinters

tacking into the trench wood panels - typical male of course, as the ladies would much

more like the love story. So yes, Pol - a film for men AND women.

[Von Paulus 8]

I've yet to see a WW1 movie better than the 1930 version of All Quiet on the Western Front. There was something about that particular incarnation that made it good-- perhaps it was that the war was still fresh in people's memories, which prevented turning it into some kind of romantic cartoonesque waste.

I do agree. I'm curious to see "Verdun, visions d'histoire". It's already in my waiting to see list.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0020547/