Voxitype Good films always raise compelling questions, whether the format is fiction or documentary fact.

BeSummers Funny, strange, confrontational and subversive, this is one of the most interesting experiences you'll have at the cinema this year.

Juana what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

Geraldine The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

yellochik198 How I like a romance, if only I spoke French and made war romantic. However, it is not and real love does endure as the film portrays. I was surprised to see a cameo from Jodie Foster. Didn't a guy shoot Regan to try to impress her? And to find out she is gay, oh the irony, men can be crazy. Just like the joke that Donald Glover says. When men and women breakup , I wonder who stalks who the most? Anyways, it was cool to find out that Jodie Foster spoke French. On another note, I loved the pure innocence of Audrey and her lover. The tone of the film was reminiscent of Del Torro, where the environment is an essential character, that makes you relate to Audrey innocent longing.

Sanjhbati M This film is directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet and starring Audrey Tautou ( famous for the movie Amilie ), This french film Got 7.8/10 ( IMDb rating ) and 85% vote ( Rotten Tomato ). It is based on Drama | Mystery | Romance , & won more than 30 awards on that time. Plot - Five French soldiers are convicted of self-mutilation in order to escape military service during World War I. They are condemned to face near certain death in the no man's land between the French and German trench lines. It appears that all of them were killed in a subsequent battle, but Mathilde, the fiancée of one of the soldiers, refuses to give up hope and begins to uncover clues as to what actually took place on the battlefield. She is all the while driven by the constant reminder of what her fiancé had carved into one of the bells of the church near their home, MMM for Manech Aime Mathilde (Manech Loves Mathilde; a pun on the French word aime, which is pronounced like the letter "M". In the English-language version, this is changed to "Manech's Marrying Mathilde"). Along the way, she discovers the brutally corrupt system used by the French government to deal with those who tried to escape the front. She also discovers the stories of the other men who were sentenced to the no man's land as a punishment. She, with the help of a private investigator, attempts to find out what happened to her fiancé. The story is told both from the point of view of the fiancée in Paris and the French countryside—mostly Brittany—of the 1920s, and through flashbacks to the battlefield.

jacks210 The film A Very Long Engagement is one that I have to give two thumbs up. This French romance captures the true essence of what a romance should be like. What I enjoyed most about the film was how it takes the viewer on the same emotional journey that the main character Mathilde goes on. We feel her hope, her pain and her love for her fiancé as she searches for him. There were a few scenes that I could have done without, due to the amount of blood and gore they included. However, as a romance film during war time, it is to be expected. One particular idea that I felt was overwhelming during the film was that true love perseveres at all cost. While it may sound cliché, Mathilde did not give up hope that Manech was still alive even after she was told directly by another solider that he saw him get shot. Even as she stat his tombstone, she held on to her undying love for him. Another idea that I found interesting was how the military officials in the film where made to seem corrupt. This underlying message made the film feel as though it had a slight political agenda to reveal the way corruption and secrets are kept in the military. To be such an amazing film there must be an amazing director behind the work. That director is Jean-Pierre Jeunt when looking up information about Jeunt; I was amazed to find that he had actually been self-taught. As shocking as it may sound his great success in the directing business is the result of an interest in cinema. He started simply directing commercials, he then began to make connections and his career launched. At age fifty-nine Jeunt has been nominated for an Oscar and won thirty-nine various awards. He is known for films like, Amelie, The City of Lost Children and Delicatessen. Overall, the film was beautifully done and embodied a "French-ness" that relayed to the audience information about French film making and culture. This could be seen first and foremost through the passionate and well placed love making scenes in the film. The French in many instances are not afraid to place nudity on the big screen or capture passionate sex scenes in their films. Also the various moments in the film that point to cultural norms show this movies "French-ness." For example the family can often be seen eating crêpes together at the breakfast table, and there is even a hint to the way the French love to go on strike, through a comment made about a newspaper strike. As previously stated, I believe this film was beautiful cinematically and in regards to the love story it follows. I would recommend this movie to anyone over the age of sixteen. Just be prepared to reach for the Kleenex as it is a tear jerker.

johnstonjames you know i watched this movie without realizing it was from one of my favorite contemporary directors, and i was still impressed with it as a art piece on it's individual merits and not biased by appreciation of director Juenet. it was kind of cool to judge it on it's own without being influenced by a director's name or reputation.i love 'City of the Lost children', as a matter, it happens to be one of my all time favorite works of surrealist fantasy. since i've loved and admired the film for years, you'd think i'd know the damn name of the director, but i'm not good with french names. it was funny that i just happened to watch this by accident without even knowing Juenet's involvement. i was also very surprised at how little Juenet has done as a director since he is such a master cinema artist.this film has everything. humour, drama, romance, social commentary, and even a big helping of gratuitous violence. it has brilliant set design and photography as well. the battle sequence was reminiscent of the historic classic 'All Quiet on the Western Front', as well as sharing that film's legendary anti-war sentiment. also the image of the film's protagonist, a polio survivor, riding on top of her companion's shoulders holding a umbrella to shield the sun while they search the meadow was stunningly beautiful. unlike a lot of historical dramas and epics, this film was neither dull or pretentious but exciting and engrossing as well as, well because of it's surrealism, kind of fun.the film was not grotesquely over blown and justified it's large budget and epic scope. in fact, though highly entertaining, it was not blatantly pandering or commercial. it also still holds up well and stands the test of time since i saw it for the first time ten years after it's release.definitely one of the best movies of the last decade and one of the most artistic and entertaining ones as well. that's what i dig about Juenet, he's esoteric, but oh so entertaining. he also interjects his films with heightened emotion and sensitivity.even though i find war movies to be fascinating history, this film is a very good reminder that i don't think i'd want to be a part of one. this film makes war look like hell. it was also a very critical depiction of "our side" and how it betrays the soldiers it sends to fight.timeless because it is a historical piece and because it is a tale of morality and caution. Juenet captivates and mesmerizes you into longing for more of his projects.though very frenchy-fied, it does have good ol' American film queen Jodie Foster doing a very authentic frenchy accent.