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                          La Promesse (1996)
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STARS...........: Jérémie Renier, Olivier Gourmet, Assita Ouedraogo
DIRECTOR........: Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne
WRITERS.........: Luc Dardenne, Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Leon Michaux
GENRE...........: Drama
IMDB............: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117398
RUNTIME.........: 1h 34mn
SIZE............: 4.56 GB
VIDEO CODEC.....: HEVC (Main10@L4)
BITRATE.........: 6500 Kbps (2-pass)
RESOLUTION......: 1800x1080
ASPECT RATIO....: 1.66:1
FRAMERATE.......: 23.976 fps
AUDIO...........: French AAC 5.1 448kbps
SUBTITLES.......: ENG
SOURCE..........: Criterion Blu-ray
ENCODE DATE.....: 2022-02-05


La promesse is the breakthrough feature from Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne, who would go on to become a force in world filmmaking. The brothers brought the unerring eye for detail and the compassion for those on society’s lowest rungs developed in their earlier documentary work to this absorbing drama about a teenager (Jérémie Renier) gradually coming to understand the implications of his father’s making a living through the exploitation of undocumented workers. Filmed in the Dardennes’ industrial hometown of Seraing, Belgium, La promesse is a brilliantly economical and observant tale of a boy’s troubled moral awakening.


Extras

• Conversation with filmmakers Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne.
• New interview piece featuring actors Jérémie Renier and Olivier Gourmet.
• Trailer