La Vie Promise (2002)
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45% of critics liked it
(22 reviews) -
47% of users liked it
(543 ratings)
Sylvia (Huppert) is a prostitute in Nice, with a self-protective talent for blocking out huge chunks of her past. When her 14-year-old daughter, Laurence (Maud Forget), skips out on foster care to see her biological mom, Sylvia is rudely dismissive. In an episode of bad timing, Laurence ends up… More Sylvia (Huppert) is a prostitute in Nice, with a self-protective talent for blocking out huge chunks of her past. When her 14-year-old daughter, Laurence (Maud Forget), skips out on foster care to see her biological mom, Sylvia is rudely dismissive. In an episode of bad timing, Laurence ends up stabbing a pimp in Sylvia's apartment. Estranged mother and daughter beat a hasty retreat heading north via train, bus and the kindness of strangers to reunite with the husband and 8-year-old son she skipped out on after the boy's birth landed her in a psychiatric hospital. Sylvia's heartbreaking and perhaps impossible goal is nothing short of trying to put all the things that have come apart in her life back together again. -- © Empire Pictures
- Directed By
- Olivier Dahan
- Genres
- Art House & International, Drama
Unrated,
- In Theaters
- Mar 5, 2004 Wide
- Studio
- Empire Pictures
Critic Reviews
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Ty Burr, Boston Globe
There is nothing [Huppert] can't do -- except save Promise from the valley of the shadow of bad French movie pretensions.
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Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle
Like an old Hollywood star vehicle, this French import does its job, providing its lead actress with compelling emotional circumstances and its audience with arresting contexts through which to perceive her.
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Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times
It all does come down to Huppert with this film, to the moods, emotional states and character moments she can create, to the delicate magic she can work on screen.
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Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune
[The film is] strongest when Huppert is plying her sordid trade, her face a cracking mask of emotional devastation.
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Andrew Sarris, New York Observer
An acting vehicle for the eternally sensual Isabelle Huppert.
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