Rotten
There is nothing [Huppert] can't do -- except save Promise from the valley of the shadow of bad French movie pretensions.
Ty Burr, Boston Globe
Overview
Sylvie is a hooker whose illegitimate daughter commits a crime. She and her daughter flee to find Sylvie's first love in the countryside. The daughter is trying to get to know her unwilling mother. Along the way, the two meet a male fugitive and bond with each other.
Director and cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
45%
Tomatometer
Fresh
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.
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle
Fresh
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.
Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times
Rotten
Even Huppert can only do so much to sustain a phony weepie about the impromptu parent-child road trip that occurs after Sylvia's estranged teenage daughter 'accidentally' kills one of Mom's brutal pimps.
Scott Foundas, L.A. Weekly
Rotten
[The film is] strongest when Huppert is plying her sordid trade, her face a cracking mask of emotional devastation.
Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune
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