The Promise released by Open Road Films: ‘Empires fall, love survives. When Michael (Oscar Isaac), a brilliant medical student, meets Ana (Charlotte Le Bon), their shared Armenian heritage sparks an attraction that explodes into a romantic rivalry between Michael and Ana’s boyfriend Chris (Christian Bale), a famous American photojournalist dedicated to exposing political truth. As the Ottoman Empire crumbles into war-torn chaos, their conflicting passions must be deferred while they join forces to get their people to safety and survive themselves. The Promise is directed by Academy Award winning filmmaker Terry George.’
AP say no their Big Story page: ‘The life of the wire service scribe has, traditionally, been to toil in anonymity. Christian Bale, however, is far from anonymous.’In “The Promise,” Bale stars as an Associated Press reporter in Constantinople in the early days of World War I, and at the onset of the mass killings and deportations of Armenians carried out by Ottoman Empire. He’s not the central figure in the movie; that’s Oscar Isaac’s Armenian medical student. But as a brash speak-truth-to-power journalist firing out powerfully worded dispatches, he’s pivotal in bringing attention to the atrocities against the Armenians. …read on here
Release date 28 April in the UK – 21 April USA