In A Very Long Engagement, Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s fervid need to turn everything into fussy, over-processed whimsy is wholly incongruous with its primary subject: war.
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War Won’t Tear Us Apart
27 Dec 2005
Posted by Culture Snob on Tuesday, December 27, 2005.
Filed in Movies and tagged A Very Long Engagement (1), Fantasy (3), Foreign-Language Films (21), Jean-Pierre Jeunet (1), War (3).
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