La Promesse (Blu-ray)

Starring: Jérémie Rénier Director: Jean-Pierre Dardenne & Luc Dardenne

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Run Time: 1 hours, 34 minutes
Video: Color
Released: August 14, 2012
Originally Released: 1996
Label: Criterion
Encoding: Region [unknown]
Note: Conversations between film critic Scott Foundas and Filmmakers Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne

New Interview piece featuring actors Jérémie Renier and Olivier Gourmet
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Plus: A booklet featuring an essay by film critic Kent Jones

Aspect Ratio: Widescreen - 1.66
Audio:

Dolby Digital 5.1 - French
DTS HD Master Audio - French
Subtitles - English

Performers, Cast and Crew:

Starring		Jérémie Rénier
Performer:		Rasmane Ouedraogo, Assita Ouedraogo & Olivier Gourmet
Directed by		Jean-Pierre Dardenne & Luc Dardenne
Screenwriting by		Jean-Pierre Dardenne & Luc Dardenne
Director of Photography:		Alain Marcoen

Entertainment Reviews:

Film Comment - 11/01/1996
"...The film is really about labor, and keeps up a break-neck, handheld-camera pace..."

Los Angeles Times - 05/30/1997
"...Exceptional....The conflicts involved are intense and absorbing, proving that compelling moral dilemmas make for the most dramatic cinema..."

Chicago Sun-Times - 08/22/1997
"...Powerful....[The directors] tap into the interior lives of the characters with tremendous subtlety and originality..."

USA Today - 12/11/1998
"..The film moves at a constant clip....[It] thoroughly engages the imagination..."

Wall Street Journal - 07/31/2009
"[A] modest masterpiece about the possibility of kindness....[A] stirring spectacle of a callow child growing -- slowly -- into a moral being."

Product Description:

Roger, a teenage boy, works for his father's construction business, a company that employs illegal immigrants from all over the world. When Hamidu, an immigrant from Burkina Faso, is critically injured in a workplace accident he asks Roger to promise to look after his wife and baby. After Hamidu dies Roger's father covers up his death and hides the body. Roger is stuck between his promise to look after the unfortunate immigrant and his loyalties to his own father. LA PROMESSE is an uncompromising coming of age story and a look at a Europe in conflict over immigrants and their often harsh treatment. From the directors of ROSETTA.

Plot Keywords:

Coming Of Age | Fathers And Sons | Theatrical Release

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