A Very Long Engagement - videos, teasers and stills from filming

All videos, teasers and footage from the filming of the film "A Very Long Engagement"

Un long dimanche de fiançailles (2004)

Timing: 2:13 (133 min)

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Actors and characters

A Very Long Engagement (2004) Original Trailer [FHD]

English

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What's left behind the scenes

The film is based on the novel by Sébastien Japrisot, "A Very Long Engagement" (Un long dimanche de fiançailles, 1991). Jean-Pierre Jeunet had been waiting for the opportunity to adapt his favorite novel for over ten years.
"A Very Long Engagement" is the second collaboration between Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Audrey Tautou after the famous "Amélie".
Director Jean-Pierre Jeunet met with Jodie Foster at a cafe near his home where he filmed the comedy "Amélie" (2001). Some tourists were nearby who did not recognize either Foster or Jeunet and asked them to move aside so as not to obstruct the cafe they were planning to photograph.
Jeunet met Foster while working on the dubbing of David Fincher's thriller "Panic Room" (2002).
Initially, Jean-Pierre Jeunet planned to cast Dominique Pinon in the role that went to Ticky Holgado (1944-2004), and Holgado in the role played by Pinon. However, Holgado was diagnosed with cancer, and the studio categorically refused to insure him, so Jean-Pierre Jeunet simply switched the actors and roles, and never regretted it. Holgado’s condition deteriorated rapidly, he began to forget his lines, and Jeunet edited a rough cut of the film for him, but Holgado died before he could see it.
The execution scene of Tina Lombardi corresponds to documentary footage of the last public execution to take place in France in 1939.
The object that Manech is crafting at the end of the film is an illustration for a handwritten book, a miniature in the medieval style. This did not appear in the novel on which «The Long Engagement» is based: Jean himself invented it, inspired by a scene from Wim Wenders' «The American Friend».
Throughout the film, Manech repeatedly taps out (on the bell, on the rock, and then on a tree in no man's land) the letters “MMM”. These letters stand for “Manech aime Mathilde,” “Manech loves Mathilde”—in French, the word “aime” is pronounced the same as the letter “M”. In the Russian translation, Manech says “Manech is Mathilde’s husband,” “Mathilde is Manech’s dream,” so that the sounds correspond to the Russian spelling of the letters.
The film is based on Sébastien Japrisot's novel "A Very Long Engagement" (Un long dimanche de fiançailles, 1991). Jean-Pierre Jeunet had been waiting for the opportunity to adapt his favorite novel for over ten years.
"A Very Long Engagement" is the second collaboration between Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Audrey Tautou after the famous "Amélie".
The object Manek is crafting at the end of the film is an illustration for a handwritten book, a miniature in the medieval style. This did not appear in the novel on which "A Very Long Engagement" is based: Jean himself came up with it, inspired by a scene from Wim Wenders' "The American Friend".

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