I hadn't seen this Jeunet movie in over a decade, but recently I was asked by one of my colleagues at SUN radio if I'd come on air to discuss my favourite movie. Which required deciding what my favourite movie was. And after watching un long dimanche de fiançailles (a very long engagement) again, I decided this was it. It's not quite as wacky as previous (or indeed subsequent) Jeunet movies like Delicatessen or Micmac à Tire-Larigaut, but it's the one that moved me the most, and it retains both the crazy visual inventiveness and the fantastic cast that characterizes Jeunet's cinema. If you don't know anything about it, the movie is set in 1919, and young Mathidle's lover Manet has not come back from the war. In fact he was executed for deliberately injuring himself. Yet Mathilde is convinced that if he had died, she would *know*, so she goes to extreme lengths to find out what happened exactly on the day of his execution. It's a fantastic story, very very French, and I cannot recommend enough.
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