La Promesse
by Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne
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Actor: Assita Ouedraogo, Fr?d?ric Bodson, J?r?mie Renier, Jean-Michel Balthazar, Olivier GourmetDirector: Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne
Cinematographer: Alain Marcoen
Writer: Jean-Pierre Dardenne
Producer: Luc Dardenne
Writer: Luc Dardenne
Editor: Marie-H?l?ne Dozo
Producer: Claude Waringo
Producer: Hassen Daldoul
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0; English (Subtitled); Italian (Subtitled)
Format: Anamorphic, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 90 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2002-03-12
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: New Yorker Video
Movie Reviews of La Promesse
Movie Review: It is surprising how many different kinds of people respond to this film...
Summary: 5 Stars
We played La Promesse for our film society on a dark and snowy night. The response was sensational. Thinking people really seem to like this film; perhaps the straight-forward, no comments narrative allows us viewers to form our own opinions. This is a tough subject, told in a hard style, but it has the redemptive punch of the most hopeful Bressons (think Pickpocket or Women of the Boulogne Woods). The performance by Jeremie Renier is up there with anything Roddy McDowell did as a young actor; Olivier Gourmet is terrific in the ambiguity he brings to his role as the boy's father. In a very quiet and non-preachy way, this film talks to the future of Europe, the question of whether morality matters in a free market world, and the ties that family arouses in most of us. This is a great movie that sounds like it will be a drag. If you like this, look at Rosetta; you have probably already seen L'Enfant. If you're not a foreign language film buff, give it a try if you like Paul Shraeder at his most hopeful (American Gigolo; Light Sleeper) or John Boorman at his most idealistic (Beyond Rangoon; Emerald Forest). This will not disappoint you.
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 MeadeArt House & International DVD Video
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