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Chippy
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The Promise
Quote: The Promise is a 2016 historical drama film directed by Terry George and starring Oscar Isaac, Charlotte Le Bon and Christian Bale, set in the final years of the Ottoman Empire. The film premiered on September 11, 2016, at the Toronto International Film Festival and was released in the United States on April 21, 2017, by Open Road Films.
The Promise is about a love triangle that develops between Armenian medical student Mikael (Isaac), an American journalist based in Paris named Chris (Bale) and an Armenian-born woman raised in France, Ana (Le Bon), during the final years of the Ottoman Empire, and during the Armenian Genocide.
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David
Pure Phase
Joined: Tue Feb 15, 2005 7:33 am Posts: 34865 Location: Maryland
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Re: The Promise
A 100-million-dollar old-fashioned melodrama, The Promise is chiefly financed by Kirk Kerkorian, the late Las Vegas magnate and philanthropist. It is an interesting proposition, a bid to retrofit the ever-controversial Armenian genocide with a Doctor Zhivago- or Titanic-style tragic love triangle and illuminate the brutality of the genocide via highly commercial content and style. The result is fueled by a certain noble indignation, and the production is handsomely burnished, but, sadly, the experience is otherwise rather flat and unpersuasive. Director Terry George, whose career pinnacle is co-writing In the Name of the Father and who also directed the more visceral and poignant genocide drama Hotel Rwanda, wrests a type of instant-gratification, short-lasting pathos from shots of dead bodies and burning towns, but his film fails to explain the genocide's underlying cultural and political tensions. And though capably acted by the photogenic trio of Christian Bale, Oscar Isaac, and Charlotte Le Bon, the romantic drama is never particularly involving, a thinly developed parade of stolen touches and jealous glances.
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