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Overview
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Directors:
Writers:
Luc Dardenne (writer) &
Jean-Pierre Dardenne (writer)
Release Date:
16 May 1997 (USA) more
Plot:
Igor and his father, Roger, are making a decent living renting apartments to illegal immigrants and... more | add synopsis
Awards:
15 wins & 5 nominations more
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Jean-pierre And Luc Dardenne, Lorna's Silence
(From Filmmaker Magazine_Director Interviews. 13 August 2009, 7:46 AM, PDT)
Cannes 08: The Dardennes on "The Silence of Lorna"
(From IFC. 22 May 2008, 2:12 AM, PDT)
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A Small Masterpiece more (21 total)
Cast
(Credited cast) | Jérémie Renier | ... | Igor |
| Olivier Gourmet | ... | Roger |
| Assita Ouedraogo | ... | Assita |
| rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
| Jean-Michel Balthazar | ||
| Frédéric Bodson | ... | The garage boss |
| Katarzyna Chrzanowska | ||
| Florian Delain | ... | Riri |
| Hachemi Haddad | ... | Nabil |
| Alain Holtgen | ... | Le postier |
| Sophie Leboutte | ||
| Rasmane Ouedraogo | ... | Amidou |
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The Promise (Australia) (DVD title)
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Runtime:
Argentina:92 min | Belgium:90 min | Sweden:94 min
Country:
Belgium | France | Luxembourg
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Aspect Ratio:
1.66 : 1 more
Certification:
Australia:M | Argentina:13 | Belgium:KT | Chile:14 | Hong Kong:IIA | Portugal:M/12 | Spain:13 | Sweden:15
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La Promesse is one of the best films of this decade. With its simple style and character-driven plot, one may think that the film comes from one of the Dogma 95 manifesto directors but it doesn't. The film's strengths lie in its theme of morality and responsibility and in its no-nonsense portrayal of the immigrant situation in Belgium (with reverberations reaching all across Europe). One can say that it's a coming-of-age tale--and in some ways it is--but when one thinks of the usual film categorized as such, the moniker doesn't match. Even the scene where Igor is being seduced by an older woman, while his father and his father's girlfriend look on, has no follow-up, no clumsy bedroom scene where we see Igor lose his virginity. The film makers just cut from the seduction scene in the bar to Igor the next morning back to his "job" at the dilapidated building site. Clearly, the directors are unconcerned with the staples of the "coming-of-age" genre. More precisely, I think it should be called a "coming-of-conscience" film. The final scene is at the same time heartbreaking and thought-provoking. The way they end the movie is a masterstroke because it forces the viewer to ponder what will come next, thus prompting self-reflective questions on what the viewer himself or herself would have chosen to do.