2016 · history · romance · drama
The Promise
Directed by Terry George2h 13m2016
Set during the last days of the Ottoman Empire, a love triangle develops between Mikael, a brilliant medical student, the beautiful and sophisticated artist Ana, and Chris, a renowned American journalist based in Paris.
Our read: The Promise (2016) reads as a heavy, steady, grounded history · romance · drama entry — measured in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Heavy, steady, measured history / romance, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, epic, measured.
- heavy
- intense
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