{"id":25697,"date":"2026-01-06T20:47:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T20:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/?p=25697"},"modified":"2026-01-06T20:47:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T20:47:10","slug":"the-promise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/the-promise\/","title":{"rendered":"THE PROMISE"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-25698\" src=\"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/the-promise-248x350.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"494\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/the-promise-248x350.jpg 248w, https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/the-promise-600x847.jpg 600w, https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/the-promise.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/h2>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<h2>THE PROMISE<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: large;\">| 1996 \u2013 93&#8242; &#8211;\u00a0 A Great Britain\/France\/Belgium Co-Production. Drama, Classic, Co-Produced by France,<br \/>\nWritten by:\u00a0Luc Dardenne, Jean-Pierre Dardenne.<br \/>\nDirected by:\u00a0Luc Dardenne, Jean-Pierre Dardenne.<br \/>\nStarring:\u00a0Jean-Michel Balthazar,\u00a0Sophie Leboutte,\u00a0J\u00e9r\u00e9mie Renier, Olivier Gourmet,\u00a0Rasman\u00e9 Ou\u00e9draogo,\u00a0Assita Ouedraogo,\u00a0Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Bodson.<br \/>\nOfficial Selections Director&#8217;s Fortnight &#8211; Cannes International Film Festival 1996, C\u00e9sar Award Nomination for Best Foreign Film 1997.<br \/>\nIn French with English subtitles.<br \/>\nA New Yorker Films \/ The Criterion Collection release. |<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: large;\">Igor (J\u00e9r\u00e9mie Renier) is fifteen. He&#8217;s an apprentice mechanic, a karting fan and above all his father Roger&#8217;s son, involved, with him, in an illegal immigration racket. Igor takes to his father&#8217;s scams with natural verve and innocence, not asking too many questions. Yet, one day because of a promise made Igor is forced to choose. Can he come clean without betraying his father? The breakthrough feature from Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne is a brilliantly economical and observant tale of a boy&#8217;s troubled moral awakening. Filmed in their industrial hometown of Seraing, Belgium, the brothers bring an unerring eye for detail and a deep compassion for those on society&#8217;s lowest rungs to this absorbing drama.\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/athome.fandango.com\/content\/browse\/details\/La-promesse\/4068540?cmp=rt_where_to_watch\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WATCH NOW<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE PROMISE | 1996 \u2013 93&#8242; &#8211;\u00a0 A Great Britain\/France\/Belgium Co-Production. Drama, Classic, Co-Produced by France, Written by:\u00a0Luc Dardenne, Jean-Pierre Dardenne. Directed by:\u00a0Luc Dardenne, Jean-Pierre Dardenne. Starring:\u00a0Jean-Michel Balthazar,\u00a0Sophie Leboutte,\u00a0J\u00e9r\u00e9mie Renier, Olivier Gourmet,\u00a0Rasman\u00e9 Ou\u00e9draogo,\u00a0Assita Ouedraogo,\u00a0Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Bodson. Official Selections Director&#8217;s Fortnight &#8211; Cannes International Film Festival 1996, C\u00e9sar Award Nomination for Best Foreign Film 1997. In French [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":25698,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,127,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-classic","category-co-produced-by-france","category-drama"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25697"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25699,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25697\/revisions\/25699"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}