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Un long dimanche de fiançailles (2004) More at IMDbPro »

• Revealing mistakes: In the opening scene a soldier lights a cigarette with a lamp, but it doesn't burn. He smokes it as if it burns.
  
  
• Anachronisms: During the attack on the story of Manech's self inflicted wound, a tank can be seen. While tanks were ready for use before 1917, they were not used, by the French, until April 1917 on the Aisne offensive.
  
  
• Anachronisms: The rural Breton cottage of 1916 has a telephone (which is probably unusual for the time), while outside views of the cottage reveal no telephone poles or wires.
  
  

• Factual errors: In the film there is an important storyline about an albatross. However, throughout the film in all footage depicting the albatross a gannet is shown. Though a gannet is also a large seabird, it looks nothing like an albatross.
  
  
• Continuity: Mathilde was born on January 1, 1900. At least twice in the course of the film we are told that Manech is only 1 year older than her. However, the voice-over at the beginning as Manech is being led through the trench with the other prisoners in January 1917 informs us that Manech is "five months shy of 20," putting his birth date in June of 1897 and making him two and a half years older than Mathilde.
  
  
• Factual errors: An explosion with the force that occurred in the hangar would have blown out all the windows and probably the roof sheeting as well, if not doors and walls. It is also doubtful that a unmoored dirigible could snap a rope that size.
  
  
• Miscellaneous: After having sex with Mathilde, Manech places his hand on her breast. He mentions several times how he could feel her heart beat. However, when we see the scene, his hand is on her right breast.
  
  
• Factual errors: Although Mathilde herself in narration, and her aunt in the story, say the musical instrument Mathilde plays is the tuba (in French), yet any euphonium player can easily recognize the musical instrument shown as a euphonium by seeing its clear images and listening to its sound, which is a little different yet crucial from those of tuba. This mistake might be deliberately made, for a real tuba might be so big for Mathilde that the view could not be taken appropriately.
  
  
• Anachronisms: One of the five sings a portion of La Chanson de Craonne, a famous French army song of protest against the horrors of the war, when he is out in no man's land. Trouble is the attack on Craonne in the Nivelle Offensive, which led to the song, occurred in April 1917, after the events in the movie. Words and tune logically came after that too.
  
  
• Anachronisms: As the five prisoners are being led through the trench in January 1917, they pass the wreckage of a German Fokker DR-1 Triplane. These aircraft did not enter service until September 1917, nine months after the events of this movie.
  
  
• Continuity: In a dream sequence, the main character is seen dangling from the top deck of the lighthouse which in encircled by a steel railing. In a scene moments later, the two main characters are seen running around the top deck of the lighthouse which now has a solid white wall around the deck.
  
  

• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): SPOILER: When Mathilde is being told about how Manech got shot by an Albatross plane, the soldier says that there were no forward firing planes then. This is not true as they were introduced by the Germans in 1915 (the story occurs in late 1916).
  
  
• Factual errors: SPOILER: In the final scene, Manech is binding a book in the garden. However, the part of the book binding process he is currently doing requires handling a material so fragile that even a breath would destroy it - it can not be done outdoors.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: SPOILER: In the final scene, with Manech and Matilde in the garden, you can clearly see the two fingers that Manech has supposed to have amputated, (the little finger and ring finger of his right hand), still intact, he has just folded them under his hand.
  
  

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