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[[File:a-very-long-engagement-2004-us-poster_6489.jpg|frame|[[War Is Hell]] on the love life...]]
A 2004 French film set in the early twentieth century. Mathilde ([[Audrey Tautou]]) was engaged to her childhood sweetheart Manech (Gaspard Ulliel) when he was enlisted to fight in [[World War
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* [[Fan Service]]: [[Audrey Tautou]], in a few scenes. In one in particular, she looks like she should be riding a clamshell.
* [[Femme Fatale]]: Tina Lombardi to a tee; a prostitute who goes about assassinating the people involved with the death of her boyfriend {{spoiler|and ruthless procurer}}.
* [[Give Me a Sign]]: Mathilde makes a number of bets with herself, believing that if events go in a certain way that she predicts, it will be a sign to not give up.
* [[I Will Find You]]: The driving force of the plot.
* [[Jerkass]]: The officer who ignored {{spoiler|Poincaré's pardon}} and sent the soldiers into no-man's land.
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* [[Ludicrous Gibs]]: A horribly realistic version, with one soldier showered with the giblets of another after he gets blown up by a grenade.
* [[Meaningful Echo]]: The [[Book Ends]], "Does it hurt when you walk?"
* [[Meaningful Name]]: Germain Pire, "pire" means "worse" in French. The character's catchphrase in French is "Pire que la fouine" (worse than weasel), to show how his private investigator activity is serious business.
* [[Mood Whiplash]]: A love story shot in sepia-tinted color that continually cuts to scenes of unbearable brutality.
* [[Obfuscating Disability]]: Mathilde occasionally plays up her polio to put others at a disadvantage.
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* [[Shot At Dawn]]: Notably averted; instead of being shot for cowardice, the five soldiers are sent out in to No-Mans Land to either starve or be shot by the Germans. {{spoiler|Ange Bassignano ends up shot in the back by a French nationalist officer after having verbally denied his French nationality to stay alive}}.
* [[War Is Hell]]: A French film, set on the Somme, about a war where France lost 9% of its male population and left untold thousands crippled and emotionally scarred? You bet it's hell.
* [[World War
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