“After the first screening of the film [the International Film Festival in Toronto in September 2016], there were already harvested 70 000 negative reviews on IMDB,” recalls Mike Medavoy, co-producer of “The Promise” in US magazine Variety . This deluge of fanciful visibly critics finally got the patience of the site team, Tuesday 25 October, which made a big household to keep only twenty opinions.

“Lies historical shameless”

“The Promise” addresses the issue of the Armenian genocide of 1915 through a love story between the characters played by Christian Bale, Oscar Isaac and French Charlotte Le Bon. A sensitive subject if ever there was in Turkey. Ankara denies ever since the term genocide and unleashed his anger against anyone who challenges the official version, according to which there were massacres that have made the Turkish and Armenian victims.

The film’s Irish director Terry George, to whom we must also “Hotel Rwanda”, has thus found in the crosshairs of an army of online supporters Turkish authorities. The tone of the comments that France 24 could consult before their disappearance, leaves little room for doubt. There is no question of cinematic qualities but, among others, of “blatant historical lies” and a feature film, “funded by the Armenian money to harm Turkey.”

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