La Promesse (rewatch)
Posted by martinteller on August 22, 2012
I thought about breaking my recent habit of lazy rewatch reviews. I could go into a little bit of the history of the Dardenne brothers, and how learning from the failures of Je pense à vous (a film I haven’t seen) shaped their style for what would be the first “real” Dardennes movie. But I would just be parroting stuff from the Criterion bonus features. No, I think I’ll just let my first review stand. It’s not a great piece of writing or anything, but anything I could add would be mostly repetition and rephrasing. I will say that nothing in the extras supported my “Olivier Gourmet doppelgangers” theory, so I’ll just assume it was a happy accident. Rating: Great (89)
