A Very Long Engagement(Un long dimanche de fiançailles)

The Hollywood Reporter by

Jeunet provides numerous pleasures, particularly visual, along the way.

L.A. Weekly by Ella Taylor

Shuttles between schoolboy humor, calculated savagery and, at the end, a rank sentimentalism in which love all too easily conquers all.

Premiere by Glenn Kenny

An epic treatment of epic themes that doesn't soft-soap its audience, but at the same time provides a terrifically satisfying entertainment.

ReelViews by James Berardinelli

Starts slowly, but builds to a satisfying conclusion.

Village Voice by Jessica Winter

Boldly aspirational. It's Jeunet's stab at "Paths of Glory," dipped in a sepia bath and halfway wrenched into a women's picture.

Variety by Lisa Nesselson

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.

Entertainment Weekly by Lisa Schwarzbaum

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.

Rolling Stone by Peter Travers

An emotional powerhouse.

Time by Richard Corliss

Can a movie have too much good stuff? Not when it's stuffed like this one.

The A.V. Club by Scott Tobias

For all of Audrey Tautou's considerable charm in the title role, Jeunet's need for a well-ordered universe proved as suffocating and exhausting as being trapped on an amusement-park ride.