Rosetta / La Promesse ( Rosetta / The Promise )

Rosetta / La Promesse (DVD) (*)

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Alternate Title: Rosetta / The Promise
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Cannes Film Festival
Ceasar Awards
European Film Awards
Toronto International Film Festival
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
French ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )

Product Origin/Format:
France ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
180 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.78:1)

Special Features:
2-DVD Set
Cast/Crew Interview(s)
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 1996-1999 and produced in:
Belgium ( France, Benelux )
France ( France, Benelux )
Luxembourg ( France, Benelux )

Directed By:
Jean-Pierre Dardenne
Luc Dardenne

Written By:
Jean-Pierre Dardenne
Luc Dardenne

Actors:
Émilie Dequenne ..... Rosetta
Fabrizio Rongione ..... Riquet
Anne Yernaux ..... The Mother
Olivier Gourmet ..... The Boss
Bernard Marbaix ..... The Campgrounds Manager
Frédéric Bodson ..... The Head of Personnel
Florian Delain ..... The Boss's Son
Christiane Dorval ..... First Saleswoman
Mireille Bailly ..... Second Saleswoman
Thomas Gollas ..... The Mother's Boyfriend
Leon Michaux ..... First Policeman (as Léon Michaux)
Victor Marit ..... Second Policeman
Colette Regibeau ..... Madame Riga
Claire Tefnin ..... Girl in Locker Room
Sophie Leboutte ..... Fired Woman
Jérémie Renier ..... Igor
Olivier Gourmet ..... Roger
Assita Ouedraogo ..... Assita
Jean-Michel Balthazar ..... The garage boss
Frédéric Bodson ..... Riri
Florian Delain ..... Nabil
Hachemi Haddad ..... Le postier
Alain Holtgen ..... Amidou
Sophie Leboutte
Rasmane Ouedraogo

Synopsis:

Rosetta:

The first scene, like almost all others, is a fighting scene. A girl, about 18, is sacked from her factory work because her trial period is over. The girl, Rosetta, is quite upset and the cops will have to arrive to get her out. She has her reasons: she lives in a caravan, with her alcoholic mother. She goes looking for work as some go to the war. Treasons, murders are in her mind, if not in her acts.

La Promesse:

Igor and his father, Roger, are making a decent living renting apartments to illegal immigrants and sometimes working them illegally (among other scams). But when the building inspector pays a surprise visit and Amidou falls off a scaffold in his hurry to hide, things start to unravel, particularly when Igor makes a promise to the injured Amidou that ultimately exposes the different values of Igor and Roger, and of Amidou's wife, Assita.

Rosetta (1999)

Young and impulsive Rosetta lives with her alcoholic mother and, moved by despair, she will do anything to maintain a job.

La Promesse (1996)

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.

This product was added to our catalog on Tuesday 08 March, 2011.

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