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A Very Long Engagement (2004)
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"Danny Boyle’s new crowd-pleasing film Slumdog Millionaire was originally intended to be shot entirely in English, but apparently due to the preferences of a casting director, about a third of the movie is in Hindi. While this fraction may not be enough to call it a foreign-language film, it could have been enough to turn off subtitle-fearing audiences were the movie not so otherwise accessible due to its feel-good, “Hollywood-style” story involving star-crossed romance, destiny and an ultimate “love conquers all” message. Also, the movie breaks free from one off-putting foreign film tradition by following Man on Fire, Night Watch and TV’s Heroes into the realm of non-traditional subtitling. Slumdog received a standing ovation at the Toronto Film Festival, where it won the People’s Choice Awa "
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"Why Jean-Pierre Jeunet isn't a more revered director the world over is beyond me. I don't understand why this wasn't up for a Best Foreign Picture Oscar, even though "A Sea Inside" - the winner that year - would have given it a run for it's money. Just as "Amelie" (another snubbed masterpiece), you could pause the film anywhere and have a frame-ready image. Breathtaking cinematography (again, robbed by "The Aviator"), a dash of humor and a lovely, touching story, Jeunet has risen to the top of my favorite director's list. DO NOT MISS IT (and for you subtitle-reading oppositionists - get over it)! "
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"I really wanted to like this one, as I have a thing for World War One. It is clearly a very expensive film, with the biggest star in France as a lead, and has really tremendous recreations of the end of the hellish conflict. But the movie just doesn't work, it's too quirky for its own good and I never got involved in any of the characters. When your film is an epic love story, that's a problem. Think of Doctor Zhivago directed by Richard Linkletter and you might some ideas of what Jeunet's effort is like. The movie does prove that its star, Audrey Tautou, can do something other than light romantic roles. She plays Mathilde, a young woman suffering from polio who learns that Manech, her fiencee (Gaspard Ulliel), has been executed for injurying himself in an attempt to escape the front. Hoping against all odds, Mathilde sets out to find if Manech might have somehow escaped from his fate. Along the way, she encounters military corruption and the releatives of four others who exe ... "
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