At the outset of “Promises,” protagonist Clémence Collombet is not an obvious fit for the talents of its leading lady. A former doctor turned mayor of an impoverished town on the outski…
Even once it gets its heroine a bit dirty, however, there remains something cautious and unexcitable about “Promises.” Intelligently fixated on the nuts and bolts of everyday politics in practice, Kruithof is so resistant to more emotively amped-up, movie-style drama that his film risks coming off underpowered, and even a little dour.
There’s a topicality, too, to its most critical subplot, involving a multimillion-Euro proposal to renovate a social housing estate fallen into scarcely habitable disrepair. The shadow of the 2017 Grenfell Tower tragedy, and the global discussion it prompted as to the role of government in our everyday safety, is felt over Kruithof and Jean-Baptiste Delafon’s thoughtful, talky script.
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