Film
Afrika Eye: La Promesse
- Director
- Luc Dardenne, Jean-Pierre Dardenne
- Certificate
- 15
- Running Time
- 90 mins
The Dardenne brothers’ feature debut from 1999, which didn’t get much of a UK cinema release. It’s a coming of age story in which young Belgian Igor grows up against the backdrop of trafficking and exploitation of illegal workers. His father, Roger, doubles up as both a trafficker and slumlord. Things start to unravel when one of the workers is killed and guilt-ridden Igor finds himself torn between his father and the man’s family, to whom he has made a promise.
It’s back on screen as part of the Afrika Eye film festival.
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