An Armenian medical student is torn by love and duty, as he tries to survive the Armenian Holocaust. The Promise credits: [Dir: Terry George/ Angela Sarafyan, Christian Bale, Oscar Isaac/ 134 min/ Drama, History/ Democide]
External Reviews of The Promise
“Hotel Rwanda director Terry George takes on a largely uncovered part of history in this often soapy but well-intentioned and extravagantly mounted epic.”
–The Guardian
“The Promise accomplishes what it set out to do. This is the rare case when the subject matter and importance of the project trumps any shortcomings in its quality and its hard not to get caught-up in the history and wonder why people don’t talk about [the Armenian Holocaust] more. Hopefully it won’t take another hundred years to get another movie made about it.”
–JoBlo.com
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“The film, which premiered at the Toronto Film Festival, has yet to close a distribution deal. Esrailian thinks the subject matter may be scaring some buyers away. There’s a reason for that fear. Officials in Turkey continue to deny that systematic killings of Armenians took place…There is already evidence of a propaganda campaign to discredit The Promise. The film’s IMDb page has received more than 86,000 user votes, the bulk of them one-star ratings, despite the fact that the movie has had only three public screenings.”
–Variety, 10/20/16
“Open Road Films has acquired U.S. rights to The Promise, the new film from Terry George about the Armenian genocide that had its world premiere in the fall at Toronto.”
–Deadline, 12/9/16