Sunday, 27 February 2005

Arts

Film: A Very Long Engagement

If you've seen the trailer you might expect A Very Long Engagement to be a gentle romantic drama where a brief wartime diversion precedes a happy reunion. You'd be wrong.

Instead it's a film about searching. For two hours Audrey Tautou's character follows all the leads she can to try and track down her fiancé, last seen heading off to war. At the same we see five soldiers looking for a way out of the war, and a way to move on from their memories of the gruesome period of their lives.

I'm sure it's good film, but it was so far from my expectations that I wasn't quite paying enough attention to follow every turn.

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