La promesa
Director:
Terry GeorgeCámara:
Javier AguirresarobeMúsica:
Gabriel YaredReparto:
Oscar Isaac, Christian Bale, Charlotte Le Bon, Shohreh Aghdashloo, Tom Hollander, James Cromwell, Jean Reno, Rade Serbedzija, Angela Sarafyan, Numan Acar (más)Sinopsis(1)
1914. A medida que se avecina la Gran Guerra, el poderoso Imperio Otomano se desmorona. A Constantinopla, antaño vibrante y multicultural, llega Michael Boghosian (Oscar Isaac), decidido a convertirse en médico para ejercer en su pequeño pueblo en el sur de Turquía, donde musulmanes turcos y cristianos armenios han vivido en paz durante siglos. Cuando Michael conoce a Ana (Charlotte le Bon), una artista de origen armenio que acompaña al periodista norteamericano Chris Myers (Christian Bale), su vida dará un vuelco. Pero cuando los turcos forman una alianza con Alemania y el Imperio se revuelve violentamente contra sus propias minorías étnicas, la pasión deberá dejar paso a la supervivencia. En tiempos de guerra se hacen promesas... y se rompen promesas. (Entertainment One Films Spain)
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To film an essentially romantic movie with a tragic storyline about the Armenian Genocide strikes me as simply idiotic. This is such a crucial topic that should be discussed and written about, and it's almost unbelievable that more wasn't extracted from it. And yet, there are very good actors here who could handle something much more controversial and meaningful.
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If Minghella or Lean had been in the chair, it could have been wonderful. As it is, it's just a fairly graphic but poorly told story that clumsily mixes bodice-ripper stuff with the horrors of the Turkish-Armenian genocide during World War I. Nothing against the three leads, but the whole comes across as predictable, clichéd, and the horrors of war are mostly portrayed in a soft presentation with poorly used camerawork and cheap effects. The potential is enormous, but for a capable filmmaker who could give it the patina of the old epic movies, and Terry George is not up to the task yet.
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