Following the global success of Amélie, director Jean-Pierre Jeunet and star Audrey Tautou reunited for this story of a woman who, like Penelope, refuses to give up on her husband’s return from war, even when it seems that all hope is gone. Mathilde (Tautou) is notified that husband Manech (Gaspard Ulliel) has been killed in the trenches of World War I. With the help of private detective Ticky Holgado (Germain Pire), she sets out to prove the French military wrong and to be reunited with her husband in this gorgeously-told story.

Notes by Kevin Coyne.

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