Kick-Back Friday: #60

By bmartin on April 3, 2009 3:59 PM | | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

Un_Long_Dimanche.jpgUn long dimanche de fiancailles
(2004)*: A young woman (Audrey Tatou of Amélie) is determined to discover the fate of her fiance and 4 other soldiers who were court-martialed for self-mutilation during World War I. War scenes in director Jean-Pierre Jeunet's visual masterpiece owe heavy debts to Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front and Kubrick's Paths of Glory; but the end-product is, by no means, derivative.

N.B.—A mid-film sequence reveals the payoff of Jodie Foster's education at Le Lycée Français de Los Angeles.

* English title: A Very Long Engagement.

HT: KTG

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