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The Next Best Picture Podcast

"The Promise"

The Next Best Picture Podcast

The Next Best Picture Podcast

Tv & Film

4.2542 Ratings

🗓️ 26 September 2016

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

For this week's main review, myself and Kristen tackle the highly controversial Armenian Genocide epic "The Promise" starring Oscar Isaac, Christian Bale & Charlotte Le Bon, written and directed by Terry George. Check out more on NextBestPicture.com Please subscribe on... SoundCloud - @negsbestfilmpodcast iTunes Podcasts - itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/negs-…d1087678387?mt=2 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

You are listening to the next best picture podcast, and this is our review of The Promise.

0:06.7

Be careful.

0:07.8

Thank you. The world is at your feet, Nikai, to us proud.

0:29.6

You're going to become a doctor.

0:32.6

Yes, it's my passion.

0:39.3

Christopher Myers. Chris is a star reporter for the Associated Press.

0:42.3

A toast to old friends and you.

0:46.3

Bravo!

0:48.3

Anna is a fine woman, Mikhail.

0:52.3

You make me feel I've come home. She's very fond of you. It's all for it is.

1:01.0

It's very dangerous for Armenians right now.

1:04.0

I want to get you out of here.

1:07.0

If it's not safe for me, then it's not safe for any of my people.

1:10.0

What is the Associates of Presti, in reporting? If it's not safe for me, then it's not safe for any of my people.

1:15.7

What is the Associates of Presbytingian reporting on the war?

1:17.7

There's no war here.

1:22.6

All right, everyone, you were just listening to the trailer for The Promise.

1:24.8

And the story is as follows.

1:31.1

Brilliant medical student, Mikhail, meets beautiful dance instructor Anya in late 1914.

1:37.2

Their shared Armenian heritage sparks an attraction that explodes into a romantic rivalry between Mikhail and Anya's boyfriend Chris Myers, an American journalist whose dedication to exposing the truth as the

1:46.7

Ottoman Empire crumbles into war-torn chaos.

1:50.3

The two conflicting passions must be deferred as they join forces to get themselves and their

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