Tuesday, August 14, 2012

8-14-12 Criterion Collection


La Promesse


1996 | C: Belgium, France, Luxembourg | L:  French | S: English | Rated N/R | RT: 94 Min. | Drama


Igor and his father, Roger, are making a decent living renting apartments to illegal immigrants and sometimes working them illegally (among other scams). But when the building inspector pays a surprise visit and Amidou falls off a scaffold in his hurry to hide, things start to unravel, particularly when Igor makes a promise to the injured Amidou that ultimately exposes the different values of Igor and Roger, and of Amidou's wife, Assita.




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