A Very Long Engagement.

World War One has finished. It's 1920 in France, and one woman, Mathilde [Audrey Tautou] refuses to believe her love, Manech [Gaspard Ulliel], is dead. The tale, A Very Long Engagement is a story of true love and how durable the human heart can be.

Manech is one of five men that gets themselves hurt on purpose so they can get discharged from the army and sent back to France, but instead of being discharged, they're convicted of self-harm and sent to no-mans-land in between French and German trench lines to fend for themselves.

Mathilde must track down soldiers that saw her fiancée in what could have been his last days, to try to find out what happened to him, and if he's alive or not. Mathilde hears tales of the battle front and other soldiers' perspectives of what has happened to her beloved Manech.

It's a brilliant and beautiful story that evokes almost every emotion in the book. It's a tear jerker, for sure, with sweet flashbacks that will tug on your heartstrings. And make you cry (It made me cry, at least.) It's got war and it's got romance.

It's a French film and unless you speak French, you're going to need to use subtitles, but it doesn't, in any way, take away from the viewing experience. The story wouldn't seem half as romantic in English.