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A Very Long Engagement

D Terminator XXXIII

01:18 / 22.11.04

Look.

I'll love it a long time, I predict.

PatrickMM

03:48 / 22.11.04

Looks to be quite good. Hopefully, this won't be one of those limited release deals when it first comes out, I want to see it next week.

haus of fraser

11:48 / 22.11.04

What a shitty trailer- I'm sure I'll really enjoy this movie- but the cheesey voiceover made me want to stick rusty squewers in my ears.

Its like its been put together by someone that just doesn't get it.. Am i alone in thinking this?

I seem to remember the trailer for the Royal Tennebaums was also pretty shitty- packaged up badly with a voice over that didn't fit... especially strange as the whole movie was voice over led.

I would assume that Jeunet has had nothing to do with the cut of this trailer- I really hope so anyway...

PatrickMM

15:31 / 22.11.04

The French trailer I saw was much better. Similar images, but no voiceover, or dialogue I could understand. I think that's actually the best way to do a trailer, hearing the entire plot of a movie doesn't engage me, but beautiful images and the right music always gets me interested in a movie. Witness the Garden State teaser, one of the best trailers of all time.

Hieronymus

18:26 / 08.01.05

Saw this last night with a shot of Zissou just before. Gorgeous. Absolutely gorgeous. This is bar none my favorite Jeunet film ever. Some of the best portrayals of the miserable hell of WWI (which always gets glossed over by sterilized cinematography in so many other films). But god. Amelie is a WB cartoon character compared to the beauty, grace and bravery that is Mathilde.

I'm even more in love with Audrey Tatou now.

Le sigh.

lekvar

06:22 / 10.01.05

This is all such wonderful news. I have been half-expecting to hear that this would be the movie where Jeunet got beaten stupid with large sacks of cash (I suppose that was Alien: Resurrection though...)

I've enjoyed them all so far. I shall this this coming weekend.

D Terminator XXXIII

14:06 / 22.01.05

Sigh.

Although there were a couple of surprises I was still underwhelmed. I didn't know that Angelo Badalamenti had made the music for the movie. I didn't know that Jodie Foster appeared in the movie, and convincingly so.

It is of immense beauty, this movie. The lighting of which was still heightened but less artificial than Jeunets other movies. Measured portrayals by everyone involved. But slightly boring for me.

The restraint Jeunet dealt the movie fit the story perfectly, but I nonetheless wished for more of the playful cinematic touches and character quirks that helped define Amelie and Alien: Resurrection.

Maybe I was expecting a tad too much. I'll go and see it again to see if my disappointment might dissipate.

Peach Pie

13:40 / 27.01.05

I liked it very much - the war scenes especially.

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