A compassionate and honest work of art about the hard adolescent realization that your parents are simply flawed (sometimes outright immoral) people like everyone else. Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne did an impeccable job.
This is a film brimming with empathy and humanity.
This review of La Promesse (1996) was written by Brandon S on 07 Jul 2017.
La Promesse has generally received positive reviews.
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