TRAILER – Thomas Kruithof plunges Isabelle Huppert and Reda Kateb into the heart of field policy, that of the mayor, in his new film, “The Promises”. To be discovered at the cinema on January 26.
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“The promise is the monetary unit in politics. It is what the characters exchange throughout the film” tells the director Thomas Kruithof in the press kit for the film “The Promises”. “But these are also the promises that one makes to oneself, the line of conduct that one promises to follow. I like this word, it is very concrete, but it also has a moral meaning and therefore respondent” he continues. It is therefore a question of politics in the new film of the director of the thriller “The Mechanics of the Shadow” released in 2017 with François Cluzet. For his new feature film, of which you can discover the trailer at the opening of this article, he invites Isabelle Huppert and Reda Kateb.
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The Promises: at the cinema on January 26
The story: Mayor of a town in the 93, Clémence is engaged in a fierce battle with Yazid, his chief of staff, to save the district of Bernardins, a town undermined by insalubrity and “sleep merchants”. This will be his last fight, before handing over to the next election.
But when Clémence is approached to become a minister, her ambition calls into question all her plans. Can Clémence abandon her city, her loved ones, and renounce her promises?
“After the 2017 presidential election, I wanted to take an interest in political courage and it seemed to me that it was at the local level that we could still believe in it” explains Thomas Kruithof. “Most films and political series are only interested in the conquest of power. I wanted there to be a concrete object of political action, which gives weight to the decisions to be made, and which can be put in balance with the ambition, the courage, the will, the fears of the characters. “
And to form his mayor / chief of staff duo, he calls on Isabelle Huppert and Reda Kateb: “There was something that seemed to match their style of play to me, an ability to keep it a mystery, a subtlety.”
Presented last September at the Venice Film Festival, “Les Promesses” will be released on our screens on January 26th.
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