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‘Promises’ With Isabelle Huppert Is A Lackluster Political Drama [Venice Review]

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A film about politics with a title like “Promises” all but comes with a get-out clause for failing to deliver on early hopes.

And so it is with French director Thomas Kruithof’s lackluster second feature, which tries to pass gesturing vaguely at social ideas off as storytelling.

This is all the more disappointing as early scenes suggest a sober, grown-up drama about migrant tenants at a neglected Parisian housing project run by exploitative landlords (referred to as “slumlords”) and Mayor Clemence (none other than Isabelle Huppert), who wants to help the tenants to secure a 63 million subsidy before she retires after two terms and 12 years in the job.

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