La Vie Promise
by Olivier Dahan
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Actor: Andr?? Marcon, Fabienne Babe, Isabelle Huppert, Maud Forget, Pascal GreggoryDirector: Olivier Dahan
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: French (Original Language), Unknown; English (Subtitled)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 94 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-02-20
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: FIRST RUN FEATURES
Movie Reviews of La Vie Promise
Movie Review: Two good reasons to see La Vie Promise.
Summary: 4 Stars
Olivier Dahan's La Vie Promise is a melancholy French drama that tells the story of a Nice prostitute, Sylvia (Isabelle Huppert), on the verge of a nervous breakdown, who attempts to escape her dysfunctional life by reconnecting with her estranged, 14-year-old daughter, Laurence (Maud Forget), and the husband, Piotr, and son living in Viale she abandoned eight years earlier. Along the way, Sylvia and Laurence are befriended by Joshua (Pascal Greggory), a car thief and ex-con, who becomes their silent-knight-in-shining-armour-saviour-figure. There are two good reasons to see this film:
1. Huppert's fascinating performance as a middle-aged, badly-bleached-blond, stuck-in-the-80s, emotionally-damaged, tattooed, pill-popping whore. It is hard to believe this stunning actress has never been nominated for an Oscar. With a touch of warmth, Huppert brings one of her finest performances to this film.
2. Maud Forget, as Sylvia's 14-year-old epileptic daughter, who has lived a life deprived of maternal love.
Although the film ends on a promising note, it travels through existential Hell to get there.
G. Merritt
Summary of La Vie Promise
Isabelle Huppert stars as Sylvia, a weary prostitute who suddenly makes contact with her estranged teenage daughter. Fleeing the French Mediterranean, they head north. Hounded by memory lapses and desperate not to see her daughter repeat her own mistakes, Sylvia tries to re-discover her once promising past.Art House & International DVD Video
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