Storyline
In 1919, Mathilde was 19 years old. Two years earlier, her fiancé Manech left for the front at the Somme. Like millions of others he was "killed on the field of battle." It's written in black and white on the official notice. But Mathilde refuses to believe it. If Manech had died, she would know. She hangs on to her intuition as tightly as she would onto the last thread of hope linking her to her lover. A former sergeant tells her in vain that Manech died in the no man's land of a trench named Bingo Crepescule, in the company of four other men condemned to die for self-inflicted wounds. Her path ahead is full of obstacles but Mathilde is not frightened. Anything is possible to someone who is willing to challenge fate...
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Cast
Marion Cotillard, Michel Vuillermoz, Elina Löwensohn, Audrey Tautou, Jodie Foster, Tchéky Karyo, Jean-Claude Lecoq, Gaspard Ulliel, Rodolphe Pauly, Gilles Masson, Rufus, Dominique Pinon, Urbain Cancelier, Michel Robin, Ticky Holgado, André Dussollier, Dominique Bettenfeld, Jean-Pierre Becker, Thierry Gibault, Gérald Weingand, Frankie Pain, Patrick Paroux, Philippe Beautier, Bouli Lanners, Denis Lavant, Denis Lavant, Marc Robert, François Levantal, Christian Pereira, Florence Thomassin, Xavier Maly, Clovis Cornillac, Virgil Leclaire, Philippe Duquesne, Albert Dupontel, Michel Gondoin , Chantal Neuwirth, Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Jérôme Kircher, Jean-Claude Dreyfus, Jean-Paul Rouve, Julie Depardieu, Maud Rayer, Stéphane Butet, Solène Le Pechon, Myriam Roustan, Sandrine Rigault, Michel Chalmeau, Marc Faure, Till Bahlmann, Tony Gaultier, Louis-Marie Audubert, Jean-Gilles Barbier, Pierre Heitz, Philippe Maymat, Eric Debrosse, Éric Fraticelli, Luc Sonzogni, Xavier Berlioz, Marcel Philippot, Pascale Lievyn, Esther Sironneau, Stéphanie Gesnel, Frédérique Bel, Alexandre Caumartin, Eric Defosse, Gaspar Claus, Jean-Philippe Bèche, Anaïs Durand
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Reviews
91
Entertainment Weekly
This is a movie that considers graphic violence with a refined taste for the sensuous: Guts spill, blood spurts, corpses stink, but there is a handsome, absurdist humanity to the way Jeunet (who wrote the script with Guillaume Laurant) maps out the crossroads of human carnage and human caring.
90
Can a movie have too much good stuff? Not when it's stuffed like this one.
90
Variety
Told with a blend of visual mastery and emotional intimacy, ambitious venture sustains a special melding of romance and pragmatism that should engage discerning audiences.
88
Premiere
An epic treatment of epic themes that doesn't soft-soap its audience, but at the same time provides a terrifically satisfying entertainment.
80
Jeunet provides numerous pleasures, particularly visual, along the way.
