I really have nothing but words of praise for this film and the dardenne brothers. The plot involves a father, roger, who mercilessly trafficks and exploits undocumented immigrants. In the first, we find rosetta at the end of a very long day. Eastern promises affiche ostensiblement des parentes avec des. His son, igor, is fifteen and an apprentice mechanic, who also works for his father in his labor contracting operation. Publication date 1980 topics modern fiction, gary, romain, 19141980, authors, french. Les grignoux dossiers pedagogiques cinema et education. Roger fait, entre autres choses, entrer illegalement des personnes etrangeres en belgique contre remuneration et.
Ce film melange histoire damour et grande histoire pour interesser le grand public au genocide armenien. You can include an image to complement your analysis. When we first meet igor jeremie renier, a teenaged garage mechanic, he is stealing the wallet of an elderly woman whose car he is servicing. A une stationservice, une femme agee fait le plein. The promise is a 1996 drama film by the belgian brothers luc dardenne and jeanpierre dardenne. For the best experience please update your browser. The story is the kind that catches your interest quickly and never lets go. Igor and his father, roger, are making a decent living renting apartments to illegal immigrants and sometimes working them illegally among other scams. The brothers brought the unerring eye for detail and the compassion for those on societys lowest rungs developed in their earlier documentary work to this absorbing drama about a teenager jeremie renier gradually coming to understand the implications of his. Immigrants plight, boys conscience the new york times. I tend to think of any film in a foreign language as an artsy movie, and avoid them like the plague.
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