With detail crammed into literally every frame, you'd be hard-pressed to find a more imaginative film this year.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 23, 2019

As in any fable, there are spires, towers and moats, and it's a spellbinding saga - a macabre dance choreographed by its romance's throbbing heart. Mathilde and Manech's love left its mark in many places, so why not the grungiest and war-torn?

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Nov 22, 2010

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 7, 2008

Filmmaker Jeunet applies his aestheticized approach (which worked well for Amelie) to a WWII melodrama to some mixed results.

| Original Score: C+ | Jul 30, 2007

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jul 14, 2007

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 1, 2006

| Original Score: 5/5 | Dec 6, 2005

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Dec 6, 2005

It's a romantic epic, an intense and gripping look at WWI, and a nifty little mystery-quest all rolled into one.

| Jul 28, 2005

a successful genre combination of a war film, period romance, detective story and black comedy

| Original Score: 7/10 | Jul 21, 2005

Jean-Pierre Jeunet represents that select group of filmmakers who treat special effects as their own art.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Jul 16, 2005

A Very Long Engagement is every bit the fantasy, the fairy tale, that Amelie was, yet we are expected to take it seriously. I couldn't.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Jul 11, 2005

...light entertainment, but offers only a shallow insight into war.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 28, 2005

| Original Score: 5/5 | May 21, 2005

Jeunet's theme is the absurdity of war and the tremendous cost of each life lost, and he makes us feel for each of these men and for the women at home fighting their own wars.

| Apr 23, 2005

...equal parts whimsy and war horrors, a potentially combustible combination that succeeds largely due to Jeunet's ability to turn absurd melodrama into something magical.

| Original Score: B- | Apr 13, 2005

As lovely to look at it as it is heart-wrenching, "A Very Long Engagement" is one of the best films of 2004.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4 | Mar 20, 2005

(...) Una pelcula vistoza, llamativa, en muchos aspectos sorprendente, pero que no deja de sonar a figurita repetida, a cosa ya vista.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 17, 2005

This is one of the finest films -- foreign or otherwise -- to come along in years.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Mar 8, 2005

The look of the film is impeccable, with very realistic-looking war and street scenes.

| Original Score: B | Feb 23, 2005