Movies

One of my all time fav. movies is Top Gun followed right up with Gone With The Wind and Amadeus.

I'm not a huge movie buff. The only movies I can actually quote word for word are listed above and honestly, they aren't on the top 10 list anywhere, for anyone, any longer. :)

I did just recently see a fantastic movie: A Very Long Engagement. My life was changed. I ordered the book. It's sitting on my table.

It's a French movie, spoken in French, therefore you have a bit of reading to do, but it's all worth it for a love story that will touch your soul.

It's graphic. It's about war. It's about love. It's now one of my favs. :)

A snip about the film:

Five soldiers are convicted of self-mutilation in order to escape military service during World War I. They are condemned to face near certain death in the no man's land between the French and German trench lines. It appears that all of them were killed in a subsequent battle, but Mathilde, the fiancée of one of the soldiers, refuses to give up hope and begins to uncover clues as to what actually took place on the battlefield. She is all the while driven by the constant reminder of what her fiancé had carved into one of the bells of the church near their home, MMM for Manech Aime Mathilde (Manech Loves Mathilde; a pun on the French word aime, which is pronounced like the letter "M". In the English-language version, this is changed to "Manech's Marrying Mathilde").

Along the way, she discovers the brutally corrupt system used by the French government to deal with those who tried to escape the front. She also discovers the stories of the other men who were sentenced to the no man's land as a punishment. She, with the help of a private investigator, attempts to find out what happened to her fiancé. The story is told both from the point of view of the fiancée in Paris and the French countryside—mostly Brittany—of the 1920s, and in flashback to the battlefield.

In the movie, Manech and Mathilde are from Brittany. In the novel, however, they are from Cap-Breton, in the Landes department of southwest France.