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for Since friendship. Or. even. a marriage made in
celluloid heaven. Alter the phenomenon that was
her Spoon ln Sanderson met Anni/iv. director Jean-Pierre Jeunet and star them in Paris to see Strike Audrey Tautou have reunited. creator and muse
coming together again for the aptly titled A Very Long Iz'rtgugwncnt. Theirs looks set to be a similarly lengthy courtship. If not quite yet the (iallic equivalent of De Niro and Scorsese. there's no question the xlmv’lio alumni make beautiful music together.
That said. you might say it‘s a solemn melody compared with the happy-go-lucky strains of its predecessor. This time around. Tautou is not the eponymous do-gooder desperate to spread a little happiness. Rather. she is the deserted lover. driven to find her fiance in the aftermath of World War I. A polio-sufferer — and tuba player to boot — her character Mathilde is wildly
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