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A Very Long Engagement
MEANRANK
75/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #1435
- IMDb #904
- Rotten Tomatoes #1422
- Metacritic #944
- Letterboxd #1346
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #2121
+7 more
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #1110
- Metacritic Critics #933
- Metacritic Audience #1113
- Criticker #812
- Kinopoisk #907
- AlloCiné #1719
- Trakt #1649
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Mostly agreed
Lowest is Criticker on 60, highest is Rotten Tomatoes viewers on 85.
See the most agreed on films →During World War I, a young woman's fiancé is sentenced to death for self-mutilation and pushed into the no-man's-land between French and German trenches. Refusing to believe he is dead, she embarks on a relentless years-long search for the truth, piecing together the stories of soldiers who knew him and uncovering the brutal realities of the war and its aftermath.
Details
- Director
- Jean-Pierre Jeunet
- Writers
- Guillaume Laurant, Jean-Pierre Jeunet
- Based on
- Q3548782 by Sébastien Japrisot
- Released
- 27 October 2004
- Country
- France, United States
- Language
- French, German, Corsican
- Runtime
- 133 min
- Rated
- R
- Budget
- $47.0M
- Awards
- 2 wins, 7 nominations
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Cast
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Awards & nominations
See all 9 →1 major award won · 2 wins from 9 nominations across 3 ceremonies
| 30th César Awards 2004 | Best Supporting Actress | Marion Cotillard | Winner |
| 30th César Awards 2005 | Best Actress | Audrey Tautou | Nominee |
| 77th Academy Awards 2005 | Best Production Design | Aline Bonetto | Nominee |
| 77th Academy Awards 2005 | Best Cinematography | Bruno Delbonnel | Nominee |
| 18th European Film Awards 2005 | Best Cinematographer | Bruno Delbonnel | Nominee |
| 18th European Film Awards 2005 | Best Actress | Audrey Tautou | Nominee |
| 18th European Film Awards 2005 | Best Director | Jean-Pierre Jeunet | Nominee |
| 18th European Film Awards 2005 | Best Production Designer | Aline Bonetto | Winner |
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9 awards — A Very Long Engagement
×| Best Supporting Actress | Marion Cotillard | Winner |
| Best Actress | Audrey Tautou | Nominee |
| Best Cinematography | Bruno Delbonnel | Nominee |
| Best Production Design | Aline Bonetto | Nominee |
| Best Production Designer | Aline Bonetto | Winner |
| Best Actress | Audrey Tautou | Nominee |
| Best Cinematographer | Bruno Delbonnel | Nominee |
| Best Director | Jean-Pierre Jeunet | Nominee |
| Best Editor | Hervé Schneid | Nominee |