YMMV / A Very Long Engagement

• Adaptation Displacement: Few people who have seen the film , especially non-Francophones, will have read the novel it is based on, Un long dimanche de fiancailles by Sébastien Japrisot.
• Americans Hate Tingle: Within France itself, the film caused some serious outrage among Corsican people, as they felt it depicts them like chauvinistic, honor-obsessed gangsters or jerkasses — made even worse by the fact that the character from there, Ange Bassignano, himself a pretty unsavory man (a pimp who tortures a man by planting his knife in his butt), shouts "I'm not French, I'm Corsican!" on the No Man's Land while waving a White Flag in the hope of having his life spared by the Germans, and his very nationalistic French officer shoots him in the head after hearing this. Thousands of Corsicans died during World War I, and the movie was deemed "insulting" to their memory. The backlash was strong enough for the movie to be pulled off all theaters in Corsica to avoid more controversy.
• Funny Moments:
  • "Dog farts, joy on my head!"
  • "Miracles don't just happen in Lourdes."
  • The scene with the matches.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: Tina Lombardi (played by Marion Cotillard) says she "regrets nothing" at one point. "Je ne regrette rien" ("I regret nothing") was the name of one of the most famous of Édith Piaf's songs. Cotillard went on to play her in La Vie en Rose (and sings it at one point), and she also played Mal in Inception, in which the song is used to kick dreamers out of their dream.

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