The Promise (1996 film)
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| 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 |
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| Distributed by | ARP Sélection (France) |
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90 minutes |
| Country | Belgium France |
| Language | French |
| Budget | €1.5 million |
| Box office | $2.8 million |
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 aliens 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.
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. 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 ".
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