La Promesse
by Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne
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Actor: Assita Ouedraogo, Frédéric Bodson, Jérémie Renier, Jean-Michel Balthazar, Olivier GourmetDirector: Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne
Brand: LA
Cinematographer: Alain Marcoen
Writer: Jean-Pierre Dardenne
Producer: Luc Dardenne
Writer: Luc Dardenne
Producer: Claude Waringo
Producer: Hassen Daldoul
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: French (Unknown), Dolby Digital 2.0; English (Subtitled); Italian (Subtitled); French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0
Format: Anamorphic, Color, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 90 minutes
Published: 2002-03-01
DVD Release Date: 2002-03-19
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: New Yorker Video
Summary of La Promesse
La Promesse draws on the considerable documentary acumen of its directors, Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne ("Rosetta"), to prove a revelation in narrative filmmaking. Shot on the outskirts of an industrial city in Belgium, the film follows Igor (J?©r?©mie R?©nier), the 15-year-old son of a single parent named Roger (Olivier Gourmet) who rents squalid apartments to recently arrived immigrants, many of them illegal. As Igor struggles to hold down odd jobs while assisting his father in crooked dealings, the Dardenne brothers plunge the audience into the thick of difficult issues--immigration, cultural and racial bias, bureaucratic injustices--without overtly politicizing or diminishing any of their characters. When Igor promises to help a young African woman, he finds he must choose between loyalty to his father and his own conscience. The beauty is in how the Dardenne brothers seem to share in the viewer's curiosity about the film's outcome, having captured a world so charged yet unadorned you feel the surprise of each new scene alongside the directors. An extraordinary film that bears repeated viewings. "--Fionn Meade"La Promesse draws on the considerable documentary acumen of its directors, Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne (Rosetta), to prove a revelation in narrative filmmaking. Shot on the outskirts of an industrial city in Belgium, the film follows Igor (Jérémie Rénier), the 15-year-old son of a single parent named Roger (Olivier Gourmet) who rents squalid apartments to recently arrived immigrants, many of them illegal. As Igor struggles to hold down odd jobs while assisting his father in crooked dealings, the Dardenne brothers plunge the audience into the thick of difficult issues--immigration, cultural and racial bias, bureaucratic injustices--without overtly politicizing or diminishing any of their characters. When Igor promises to help a young African woman, he finds he must choose between loyalty to his father and his own conscience. The beauty is in how the Dardenne brothers seem to share in the viewer's curiosity about the film's outcome, having captured a world so charged yet unadorned you feel the surprise of each new scene alongside the directors. An extraordinary film that bears repeated viewings. --Fionn Meade
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