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Amazon.com: A Promise : The Promise, Promise, Rebecca Hall, Richard Madden, Alan Rickman, Maggie Steed, Toby Murray, Patrice Leconte, Olivier Delbosc: Movies & TV
Germany, 1912. Friedrich (Richard Madden, CINDERELLA), a graduate of humble origins, takes up a clerical post in a steel factory, soon becoming the elderly owner Karl's (Alan Rickman, HARRY POTTER) private secretary and boarder. There he meets Lotte (Rebecca Hall, IRON MAN 3), Karl's reserved and beautiful young wife. Starting an illicit romance, the two young lovers dreams are dashed when Karl announces he's sending his secretary to oversee his mines in Mexico. But Lotte makes a Promise to Friedrich: when he returns in two years, she will be his no matter what. With the later outbreak of World War I prohibiting his return to Germany, Friedrich must wait eight long years before returning to Europe and finding out if the woman he pines for has kept her Promise during that brutal passage of time. With lush period detail, director Patrice Leconte's a Promise is a sumptuous testament to the enduring power of love.
Product details
Is Discontinued By Manufacturer
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No
MPAA rating
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NR (Not Rated)
Product Dimensions
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0.7 x 7.5 x 5.4 inches; 0.32 ounces
Item model number
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IDFC9381DVD
Director
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Patrice Leconte
Media Format
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Multiple Formats, NTSC, Widescreen, Color
Run time
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1 hour and 38 minutes
Release date
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August 26, 2014
Actors
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The Promise, Promise, Rebecca Hall, Richard Madden, Alan Rickman
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A Promise is a beautifully filmed love story. The chemistry between the two lovers was simmering throughout the movie. Wonderful period costumes and the scenes with the two lovers were nuanced and quite lovely. Wonderful entertainment!
Without giving any spoilers, viewers should consider why the aging husband would invite the protege to live in his home, so near his wife. I thought the acting was great all around, with the two would-be lovers showing pained restraint. Some reviewers commented that Richard Madden's acting was dull, but I disagree. He acted with the properness of an employee living in his employers house. I liked that this was a more nuanced love story than we normally get.
SPOILERS FOLLOW
Charlotte loves her older husband, and also loves Freidrich. She married her husband after he came to her aid when she lost her fiance - you can understand why she did so, and also why she is drawn to Freidrich. The husband (Alan Rickman's character) says himself on his deathbed that he purposely brought Freidrich and Charlotte together. I appreciated the depth of the circumstances and how each character navigated them.
The only part I didn't quite understand was toward the end, when Freidrich says he can't stay longer at the house because he has to return for a work meeting, to which Charlotte reacts with restrained disappointment. They visit his old bedroom and she affirms she remembers her promise. Then suddenly they're on a train together into town. It feels like a scene or exchange is missing, explaining how she comes to be on the train. I can only assume they rekindled their love after she affirmed her promise, and therefore accompanied him into town, but I wish I didn't have to fill in that gap.
It is probably a matter of personal taste when watching a story of forbidden love as to how it is portrayed. There have been many that have gone before "A Promise" that have moved readers and audiences alike. Frankly, it's old tale of elderly man, young wife, and introduction of handsome contender who falls for the forbidden fruit. As much as I like Alan Rickman, I found this movie to be a slow-moving tale lacking the passion I hoped to encounter.
Alan plays the elderly owner of a foundry, Karl Hoffmeister, with an ailing heart. Enters Friedrich Zeitz, who he takes under his wing as his protege. It's apparent from the beginning he is grooming the young, intelligent man to take over his business. Early in their relationship, he discloses the secret that he is not well. As he methodically allows the young handsome Friedrich to enter his home and take up residence, you gain the sense that he has purposely brought him close to his wife to encourage something more. Perhaps, it is the love of an older, dying man for his young wife to make sure her needs are met after his demise. Little did he know, that having done so, he finds himself brokenhearted when she does fall for Friedrich.
Rebecca Hall plays the proper wife, though slightly dull. Richard Madden plays the protege, who is immediately attracted to Heir Hoffmeister's wife. He turns into a sappy, slightly obsessive worshiper of young Charlotte.In one scene he smells her scent and kisses the keys of the piano that she has played, as if he's making love to it. Of course, that is countered later in the movie with Charlotte sniffing the pillow of his empty bed.
The two are thrown together due to Heir Hoffmeister's ill health attending the opera and other activities. It's a silent game between the two, as they both play with fire, but fail to acknowledge their feelings for one another for some time. It's not until Hoffmeister reaches the stage of jealousy, that he sends off his rival to Mexico on business for two years. Then, the floodgates of words of undying love burst forth between the two, as well as the "promise" to wait for one another.
The movie is set in pre-WWI Germany. When war ensues, it keeps them apart far longer than either anticipated. After the death of her husband, and many years of receiving no word, Friedrich returns after the war. Charlotte who has been sorrowfully smitten and pining for her sweetheart meets him once again. Instead of the passionate reunion you anticipate, it turns into a polite cup of tea like two friends making up for lost time. He is aloof and cold, she is polite and proper. In fact, he confesses he's not married but has been with other women. She fluffs it off as inconsequential. It's not until the end scene they finally kiss. Where's the tears? Where's the passion? Where is the joy of seeing one another again? Obviously, six years has cooled them off. It's an odd, emotionless reunion.
The more I think about why this movie doesn't have the effect is should, is that the two main characters, Charlotte and Friedrich, never really take the viewers to the point of falling in love with them. Friedrich is sullen, moody, and intense. He surely didn't make me want to swoon and commit adultery. Charlotte's character, though quite innocent in the beginning, doesn't really portray why she is so unhappy with her husband that she should be tempted to stray. Because I never bonded with the characters, except for Herr Hoffmeister, it wasn't an exciting, moving, heart-throbbing love story that made me want to see the two live happily ever after. Even though it is based off a novel written by Stefan Zweig's "Journey into the Past," it comes across as a worn-out plot that is missing important elements of passion to make it memorable.
Of course, I love period movies, whether excellent or mediocre. Though for me this was more mediocre, you may find it your cup of tea.
This is so well acted, the production so superb. It will grip you and hold you enthralled. You can almost feel the throbbing passion that the characters have to try and hide. This isn't a sexed-up period piece yet it still has the power to engage you in the pain and pleasure of a couple in love who are restricted by circumstances. You'll end up yearning that it will all come right in the end! Does it? Buy it and find out.
It's a beautiful film about love. Don't be confused though, it is not a film about what "love" is. To quote Oscar Wilde the film shows how "over our heads will float the Blue Bird singing of beautiful and impossible things, of things that are lovely and that never happen, of things that are not and that should be.”
Desafortunadamente la región impide que puedas visualizarla en un reproductor estándar por incompatibilidad, sólo si dispones de un programa en el PC de reproducción con cambio de región.
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