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Review: Promise, The

“Perhaps audiences who don’t yet speak Mandarin or have zero familiarity with the legend will miss out in the film’s subtle implications of the tale, but principally one would need an accompanying score card to keep up with a storyline that fast-forwards through the courting phase, and which arrives at point C without going through B.”


Promise, The



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“Perhaps audiences who don’t yet speak Mandarin or have zero familiarity with the legend will miss out in the film’s subtle implications of the tale, but principally one would need an accompanying score card to keep up with a storyline that fast-forwards through the courting phase, and which arrives at point C without going through B.”

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Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).

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