La Promesse

La Promesse
Film poster
Directed by	Jean-Pierre Dardenne Luc Dardenne
Written by	Jean-Pierre Dardenne Luc Dardenne Léon Michaux Alphonse Badolo
Starring	Jérémie Renier Olivier Gourmet Assita Ouedraogo
Cinematography	Alain Marcoen
Edited by	Marie-Hélène Dozo
Music by	Jean-Marie Billy Denis M'Punga
Production companies	Eurimages^[1] Les Films du Fleuve^[1] RTBF^[1] Samsa Film^[1] Touza Productions^[1]
Distributed by	Cinélibre (Belgium)^[1] ARP Sélection (France)^[1]
Release dates	May 1996 (1996-05) (Cannes) 9 October 1996 (1996-10-09) (Belgium)^[2] 16 October 1996 (1996-10-16) (France)^[1]
Running time	90 minutes^[1]
Countries	Belgium^[1] Luxembourg^[1] Tunisia^[1] France^[1]
Language	French
Budget	€1.5 million^[3]
Box office	$2.8 million^[3]

La Promesse (lit. '"The Promise"') is a 1996 drama film written and directed by the Belgian brothers Luc Dardenne and Jean-Pierre Dardenne, starring Jérémie Renier and Olivier Gourmet. The film had its world premiere in the Directors' Fortnight section parallel to the 1996 Cannes Film Festival.^[4] The film was shot in chronological order.^[5]^[6]

Plot

The plot involves a father, Roger, who mercilessly trafficks and exploits undocumented immigrants. His son, Igor, is fifteen and an apprentice mechanic, who also works for his father in his labor contracting operation. When one of their illegal workers is seriously injured at the worksite, left to die, and the death concealed by Roger and Igor, a guilt-ridden Igor must choose between his father's chosen way of life and his promise to the dying man.^[7]

Cast

Critical response

La Promesse received overwhelmingly positive reviews from critics. Review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes gives it a 95% approval rating, based on 22 reviews, with an average score of 7.8/10.^[8] 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".^[9]

Awards and nominations

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Belgian Film Critics Association (Belgium)
- Won: André Cavens Award for Best Film
- Nominated: Grand Prix
César Awards (France)
- Nominated: Best Foreign Film
Los Angeles Film Critics (USA)^[10]
- Nominated: Best Foreign Film
National Society of Film Critics (USA)
- Won: Best Foreign Language Film
Online Film Critics Society Awards (USA)
- Nominated: Best Foreign Language Film
Satellite Awards (USA)
- Nominated: Best Motion Picture – Foreign Language
Valladolid Film Festival (Spain)
- Won: FIPRESCI Prize (Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne)
- Won: Golden Spike (Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne)

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m "The Promise de Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne". Unifrance. Archived from the original on 11 May 2023. Retrieved 6 June 2023.
^ "The Promise". Cineuropa. Archived from the original on 25 September 2021. Retrieved 6 June 2023.
^ ^a ^b "La Promesse". JP's Box-Office. Archived from the original on 21 April 2016. Retrieved 6 June 2023.
^ Turan, Kenneth (30 May 1997). "Moral Rebellion at Heart of 'La Promesse'". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on 13 May 2023. Retrieved 6 June 2023.
^ Talbot, Margaret (31 December 2012). "The Best in Old Movies". The New Yorker.
^ "Why Do The Dardennes Shoot Their Films (Including "Two Days, One Night") Sequentially?". The Take. 28 January 2015. Retrieved 6 June 2023.
^ "TCM Film Article: La Promesse". Archived from the original on 2 February 2019. Retrieved 1 February 2019.
^ "La Promesse (The Promise) (1996)". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 6 June 2023.
^ "La Promesse (The Promise)". Metacritic. Archived from the original on 3 February 2022. Retrieved 6 June 2023.
^ www.adam-makes-websites.com, Adam Jones-. "Awards for 1997 - LAFCA". www.lafca.net. Retrieved 8 June 2023.

External links

La Promesse at IMDb
La Promesse at Rotten Tomatoes
La Promesse at dardenne-brothers.com
La promesse: One Plus One an essay by Kent Jones at the Criterion Collection

v t e Dardenne brothers
Awards and nominations
Feature films	The Promise (1996) Rosetta (1999) The Son (2002) L'Enfant (2005) Lorna's Silence (2008) The Kid with a Bike (2011) Two Days, One Night (2014) The Unknown Girl (2016) Young Ahmed (2019) Tori and Lokita (2022)
Related	Les Films du Fleuve

Awards for La Promesse

Belgian Film Critics Association Award for Best Film

Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Foreign Language Film

1975–2000

And Now My Love (1975)
Face to Face (1976)
That Obscure Object of Desire (1977)
Madame Rosa (1978)
Soldier of Orange (1979)
No Award (1980)
The Tin Drum (1981)
Pixote (1982)
Mad Max 2 (1983)
Fanny and Alexander / The Fourth Man (1984)
The Official Story / Ran (1985)
Vagabond (1986)
Goodbye, Children (1987)
Wings of Desire (1988)
Distant Voices, Still Lives / Story of Women (1989)
Life and Nothing But (1990)
The Beautiful Troublemaker (1991)
The Crying Game (1992)
Farewell My Concubine (1993)
Three Colours: Red (1994)
Wild Reeds (1995)
A Judgement in Stone (1996)
The Promise (1997)
The Celebration (1998)
All About My Mother (1999)
Yi Yi (2000)

2001–present

No Man's Land (2001)
And Your Mother Too (2002)
The Man on the Train (2003)
House of Flying Daggers (2004)
Hidden (2005)
The Lives of Others (2006)
4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (2007)
Still Life (2008)
Summer Hours (2009)
Carlos (2010)
City of Life and Death (2011)
Holy Motors (2012)
Blue Is the Warmest Colour (2013)
Ida (2014)
Son of Saul (2015)
The Handmaiden (2016)
BPM (Beats per Minute) / Loveless (2017)
Burning / Shoplifters (2018)
Pain and Glory (2019)
Beanpole (2020)
Petite Maman (2021)
EO (2022)
Anatomy of a Fall (2023)
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