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A FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOKTHE FEATURE PRESENTATION
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
Keep the feeling.
SIMILAR PICKS / A PERSONAL CONNECTION
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Why this pick
Jeunet’s earlier fantasia shares the ornate, tactile visual imagination and romantic melancholy of A Very Long Engagement, pairing a determined quest with eccentric supporting characters and storybook-dark atmosphere.
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Why this pick
This First World War drama similarly finds intimate humanity amid battlefield horror, using several intersecting perspectives and a tender, tragic emotional tone rather than treating war as spectacle.
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Why this pick
A graceful French romance driven by chance, devotion, and a fable-like sensibility. Its elegant black-and-white imagery and bittersweet yearning suit Mathilde’s unwavering emotional pull.
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Why this pick
Its sweeping period settings and emotionally restrained romance build toward hard-won intimacy, with visual beauty serving a story of loyalty, loss, and unexpected moral resilience.
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Why this pick
For the central appeal of love tested by separation and time, this is an unabashedly heartfelt counterpart, structured around memory and persistence rather than wartime mystery.
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01 / THE STORY
Five desperate French soldiers during The Battle of the Somme shoot themselves, either by accident or with purpose, in order to be invalided back home. Having been "caught" a court-martial convenes and determines punishment to be banishment to No Man's Land with the objective of having the Germans finish them off. In the process of telling this tale each man's life is briefly explored along with their next of kin as Methilde, fiancée to one of the men, tries to determine the circumstances of her lover's death. This task is not made any easier for her due to a bout with polio as a child. Along the way she discovers the heights and depths of the human soul.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
Mathilde
Germain Pire
Tina Lombardi
Ange Bassignano
Benjamin Gordes
Un Breton
Bastoche
Le facteur
