Since Henri Queuille, political leaders have assumed their demagogy with the help of his famous formula:
"promises only bind those who listen to them".
In the city of Seine-Saint-Denis where Thomas Kruithof set the scene for his stunningly realistic film
(
Les Promesses
),
Mayor Clémence Collombet says the same thing in another way to exonerate herself in advance of her bad (non-)deeds:
“A broken promise is not a lie.”
Well, let's see, as the other would say.
Isabelle Huppert lends her features to this endearing and detestable character.
We follow her as a woman of local power suddenly seized by ambition (here again, a promise - to become a minister - will have sufficed to excite her), alongside her director of cabinet, Yazid (Reda Kateb, exceptional, as usual), devoted pure heart but fooled by nothing.
A close-up of municipal “shadow mechanics” in action.
Around a project to rehabilitate a city of unsanitary, slaloming housing…
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