A Promise Review

A Promise
Stuffy industrial Karl Hoffmeister (Rickman) finds his wife drawn slowly but surely to his young apprentice (Game Of Thrones' Madden).

by David Hughes |
Published on
Release Date:

01 Aug 2014

Running Time:

98 minutes

Certificate:

12A

Original Title:

A Promise

Germany, 1912. An ailing industrialist (Alan Rickman) finds his young protégé (Richard Madden) drawn to his wife (Rebecca Hall) in this torpid, turgid adaptation of Austrian author Stefan Zweig’s novella Journey Into The Past, which has less drama than a Catherine Cookson done by ITV.

If you only watch one Stefan Zweig-inspired film this year, watch The Grand Budapest Hotel. If you watch two, see The Grand Budapest Hotel twice. Awful.
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