Audrey Tautou, who rose to international stardom with the title role in
Jean-Pierre Jeunet's worldwide smash Amà (C)lie, reunites with the
director for this drama, set during the darkest days of World War I and
its immediate aftermath. Mathilde (Tautou) is a pretty but frail young
women who was left with a bad leg after a childhood bout with polio.
Mathilde lives in a small French village with her Aunt Bà (C)nà (C)dicte
(Chantal Neuwirth) and Uncle Sylvain (Dominique Pinon), and is engaged
to
marry Manech (Gaspard
Ulliel), the son of a lighthouse keeper who is fighting with the army
near the German front. Manech is one of five soldiers who have been
accused of injuring themselves in order to be sent home; in order to
discourage similar behavior among their comrades, Manech and the other
soldiers are sentenced to death, and the condemned men are marched into
the no man's land between the French and German lines, where they are
certain to be killed. Mathilde receives word of Manech's death, but in
her heart she believes that if the man she loved had been killed, she
would know it and feel it. Convinced he's still alive somewhere,
Mathilde hires a private detective (Ticky Holgado) shortly after the end
of the war, and together they set out to find the missing Manech. Jodie
Foster appears in a supporting role as a Polish expatriate living in
France.
Directed By:
Jean-Pierre Jeunet
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