The story functions as a complex detective procedural. Mathilde meticulously gathers fragments of information:
While Mathilde’s world is often painted in warm, sepia tones, the film frequently plunges back into the mud and "digital wizardry" of the trenches. It exposes the cruelty of the military hierarchy, where five men were used as examples and left to die in "Bingo Crepuscule," a trench between French and German lines. The film argues that "civilization," intoxicated by its own rhetoric of glory, became the author of its own extinction, wiping out an entire "Lost Generation". A Mystery of Memory and Identity A Very Long EngagementHD
The Books: “A Very Long Engagement” (Sebastien Japrisot) The story functions as a complex detective procedural