Fresh from its premiere at the 2019 Lavazza Italian Film Festival and featuring a stellar Italian-Australian cast including Paul Mercurio and Tina Arena, Promised is a romantic drama that is certain to hit home.
In Melbourne in 1953, five year old Robert and newborn Angela are promised in marriage by their fathers, Sal (Mercurio) and Joe. Against the misgivings of Angela’s mother (Arena), Sal is insistent that he must uphold his promise to Joe – an influential well connected man who Sal is indebted to.
Fast forward to 1974, and Angela (Antoinette Iesue) is now a beautiful, intelligent and modern lady whose aspirations lie well beyond the family pastry shop. Robert (Daniel Berini) now 25, has just returned home from studying law abroad at Oxford. Despite changing times, fading traditions and Angela’s love for another man, she is still expected to marry Robert. As a web of secrets, lies and revelations surface, it teaches everyone involved that love, like life, can never be perfectly arranged.
CTC In cinemas from Oct 24
View the trailer More at the official website, including a list of participating cinemas nationwide.
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