Yesterday I went to a movie theather and saw the French movie Un long dimanche de fiancailles, directed by Jeunet and starring Audrey Tatou. It was without a question the best movie I have seen in a theater for the last year. Moving work which combines gritty realism and tragedy with comedy and stubborn love and makes these different kind of elements work as a whole. A superb movie!

There were few problems with the movie; the former soldier having the "Spanish flu" at the beginning was in a curiously good condition if he was dying of the influenza, and Mathilde would have been in a real danger of contracting the disease herself. The battlefield in Somme in 1920 wouldn´t have been in as a good condition as it showed to be in the movie; there would still have been remains of trenches and bomb craters and likely no standing forest so close to the battlefield. And the Zeppelin scene was rather odd. But these are little problems and don´t take anything away from the emotional power of the movie.