Edited from
Le peuple migrateur (2001)
- The digital compositing shots of the stationary seagull trying to fly against a heavy gust of wind features a shot of the bird taken directly from Le Peuple Migrateur
References
All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
- a dead soldiers boots becoming a major plot element
Citizen Kane (1941)
- In the scene at the train station, Director Juenet reveals in the commentary that this shot was an homage to the scene just before the opera in Citizen Kane, when all the characters mull all over the place.
Jour de fête (1949)
- (the postman is an acknowledged reference to Jacques Tati's character)
Letyat zhuravli (1957)
- "If I can count to x before the mail arrives, he's alive", + other intentional similarities between female protagonists.
Paths of Glory (1957)
- The camera movement in the trenches as well as the WWI war scenes are quite exact copies of Kubricks masterpiece.
Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo. (1966)
- In a scene (1h 46m into the movie) where a man's hand moves onto the back of Audrey Tautou's neck, Juenet explains that this is improbable, but it is "totally Sergio Leone" and that "it's Clint Eastwood throwing down the spade in The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly.
MASH (1970)
- one of the condemned prisoners is numbers 4077, the camp for movie and TV series
The Godfather: Part II (1974)
- Juenet mentions The Godfather: Part 2 twice in the commentary. Once is when a man is stabbed in the ass (he mentions Robert De Niro in a scene from Coppola's film). Another mention is the use of brown autumn hues that he used for the bulk of his picture.
Saving Private Ryan (1998)
- For the war scenes, the director claims that Saving Private Ryan is a film he constantly showed to his staff during shooting to make sure they got everything as realistic as Spielberg's picture did.
Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain (2001)
- The director claims that he ran out of ideas and added in a box that was a direct reference to Amelie, his previous film.
Le peuple migrateur (2001)
- contains some footages
Road to Perdition (2002)
- In the scene at Alexander Bridge, director Juenet says that the cinematographer's shooting instantly reminded him of Road to Perdition, and he kept the wonderful shot in the film.
Referenced in
Un long dimanche de fiançailles: le making-of (2004) (TV)
- Making-of
"Kureyon Shin-chan: Pee Strike! (#1.1)" (2006)
- The episode segment "A Very Wrong Engagement", is a reference to this film.
Featured in
A Very Long Engagement: On the Set of a Romantic Epic (2004) (TV)
- making of
The 77th Annual Academy Awards (2005) (TV)
- Nominated in two categories
Une année au front, les coulisses de 'Un long dimanche de fiancailles' (2005) (V)
- Documentary on the making of this film
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