From the director and star of Amelie (Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Audrey Tautou) comes a very different love story, based on the acclaimed novel by Sebastien Japrisot.
    The film is set in France near the end of World War I in the deadly tenches of the Somme, in the gilded Parisian halls of power, and in the modest home of an indomitable provincial girl. It tells the story of this young woman's relentless, moving and sometimes comic search for her fiancee, who has disappeared.
    He is one of five French soldiers believed to have been court-martialed under mysterious circumstances and pushed out of an allied trench into an almost-certain death in no-man's land. What follows is an investigation into the arbitrary nature of secrecy, the absurdity of war, and the enduring passion, intuition and tenacity of the human heart.

STARRING:

Audrey Tautou, Gaspard Ulliel, Jean-Pierre Becker, Dominique Bettenfeld, Clovis Cornillac, Marion Cotillard, Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Julie Depardieu, Jean-Claude Dreyfus, Andre Dussollier, Ticky Holgado, Tcheky Karyo, Jerome Kircher, Denis Lavant, Chantel Neuwirth, Dominique Pinon, Jean-Paul Rouve, Michel Vuillermoz

YEAR OF RELEASE: 2004

SCREENWRITER: Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Guillaume Laurant

DIRECTOR: Jean-Pierre Jeunet

RUNNING TIME: 99 minutes

STUDIO: Warner Brothers

Average Hollywood Guys Rating: B

• This movie was denied federal funding from the French as it was being produced by Warner Brothers an American company, the court ruling said that if it was receiving funds from foreign places then it could not receive aid.
• The movie was disqualified from the Cannes Film Festival because it was shown outside of France (the film's country of origin).
• The execution scene in this film is directly inspired by a 1939 film showing the last public execution in France.
• The music used in the trailer for this film was the music written for The Edge by Jerry Goldsmith.
• This movie is based on the book by Sebastien Japrisot, the French title is: Un Long Dimanche De Fiancailles.