La Promesse

La Promesse
Film poster
Directed by Jean-Pierre Dardenne
Luc Dardenne
Written by Jean-Pierre Dardenne
Luc Dardenne
Starring Jérémie Renier
Olivier Gourmet
Assita Ouedraogo
Music by Jean-Marie Billy
Denis M'Punga
Cinematography Alain Marcoen
Edited by Marie-Hélène Dozo
Production
company
Eurimages
Les Films du Fleuve
RTBF
Samsa Film
Touza Productions
Distributed by ARP Sélection (France)
Release date
  • 16 October 1996 (1996-10-16)
Running time
 90 minutes
Country Belgium
France
Language French
Budget €1.5 million[1]
Box office $2.8 million[1]

La Promesse (lit. "The Promise") is a 1996 drama film by the Belgian brothers Luc Dardenne and Jean-Pierre Dardenne. The plot involves a father, Roger, who traffics and exploits illegal immigrants coming into conflict with his teenage mechanic-aspiring son, Igor, after them covering up the accidental death of one of the immigrants results in Igor trying to help out the dead man's family.

Cast

Critical response

La Promesse received mostly positive reviews from critics. Review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes gives it a 95% approval rating, based on 21 reviews, with an average score of 7.8/10.[2] At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the film received an average score of 82, based on 17 reviews, indicating "universal acclaim ".[3]

Awards and nominations

References

  1. 1 2 "La Promesse". JP's Box-Office.
  2. ↑ "La Promesse (The Promise) (1996)". Rotten Tomatoes.
  3. ↑ "La Promesse (The Promise)". Metacritic.


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