Thierry Gandillot: The Promise keeps its promises. (Memento des Originals vom 24. März 2011 im Internet Archive) Info: Der Archivlink wurde automatisch eingesetzt und noch nicht geprüft. Bitte prüfe Original- und Archivlink gemäß Anleitung und entferne dann diesen Hinweis.@1@2Vorlage:Webachiv/IABot/www.lesechos.fr In: Les Echos, 21. März 2011. “Exceptional, stunningly intelligent” […] the serious acting and considered dialogue “measure up to the ambition of this film, which does not bring unanimity but makes a proof of sincerity.”
Matt Baylis: Burning Bush of Genius. In: Daily Express, 7. Februar 2011, S. 39; auch von Broadcast, 7. Februar 2011. “This four-parter is a little burning bush of genius in the desert of well-intentioned TV dramas.”
Isabel Hanne: Double-voiced diary of a Promise kept. In: Libération, 21. März 2011. “Admirable […] the art of The Promise is in its ambiguity, its double-valuedness, its lack of Manicheanism […] The excellent director […] points a finger neither at one camp nor the other, but tells a story of two paths, a tragedy in two voices”
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Hugh Montgomery: The Promise. In: Independent on Sunday vom 13. Februar 2011. “[In the 1940s sequences,] Kosminsky balanced the demands of big-picture history and intimate human drama with a quite remarkable assurance. Contrastingly, the modern-day storyline was hobbled by an inertia that seemed at odds with its tumultuous subject matter.”
Christina Patterson: Israel needs its friends more than ever. In: The Independent, 23. Februar 2011. “It’s finely crafted, beautifully shot and extremely well written. It’s also extremely balanced.”"
Thierry Gandillot: The Promise keeps its promises. (Memento des Originals vom 24. März 2011 im Internet Archive) Info: Der Archivlink wurde automatisch eingesetzt und noch nicht geprüft. Bitte prüfe Original- und Archivlink gemäß Anleitung und entferne dann diesen Hinweis.@1@2Vorlage:Webachiv/IABot/www.lesechos.fr In: Les Echos, 21. März 2011. “Exceptional, stunningly intelligent” […] the serious acting and considered dialogue “measure up to the ambition of this film, which does not bring unanimity but makes a proof of sincerity.”
Rachel Tarley: The Promise is not without its flaws but was powerful once again. In: Metro, 13. Februar 2011. “Despite these character flaws, this drama is a careful and thorough examination of a patch of British history many viewers will have known very little about”.
Rachel Tarley: The Promise is not being fulfilled. In: Metro, 21. Februar 2011. “The excellent pace and tension that this drama boasted in the first few episodes has given way to a lethargic script and almost sloppy plots.”
Keith Watson: The Promise: An epic journey that delivered an uplifting message. In: Metro, 25. Februar 2011. “if you stuck to your guns, this intelligent and emotional exploration of the Arab-Israeli conflict in Palestine, a landmine that could blow up at any moment, richly repaid that commitment.”
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Rachel Cooke: The Promise. In: New Statesman vom 17. Februar 2011. “Ambitious, well-written, superbly acted and expertly made, it is also provocative and challenging.”
One World Media Awards 2011 auf oneworldmedia.org.uk. Abgerufen am 9. Januar 2015. “The jury acknowledges the laudable ambition of taking on this complex, ever-evolving and much debated subject and the difficulty of exploring it in a way which is immediate, undogmatic and surprising, and which explores a multi-generational story through compelling characters. It also bridges two periods in a way which smartly sheds new light on both.”
Thierry Gandillot: The Promise keeps its promises. (Memento des Originals vom 24. März 2011 im Internet Archive) Info: Der Archivlink wurde automatisch eingesetzt und noch nicht geprüft. Bitte prüfe Original- und Archivlink gemäß Anleitung und entferne dann diesen Hinweis.@1@2Vorlage:Webachiv/IABot/www.lesechos.fr In: Les Echos, 21. März 2011. “Exceptional, stunningly intelligent” […] the serious acting and considered dialogue “measure up to the ambition of this film, which does not bring unanimity but makes a proof of sincerity.”
Liel Leibovitz: War and Remembrance. In: Tablet Magazine, 16. März 2011: “The show’s writer and director, Peter Kosminsky, walks this tightrope of evenhandedness remarkably well […] To Kosminsky’s credit, nothing and no one in the series is simple, and even the most zealous characters are allowed moments of humanity, a few good arguments in support of their cause, and a few moments of grace.”
James Walton: Review. In: The Daily Telegraph, 7. Februar 2011. “will richly deserve any gongs that come its way”.
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Sophie Bourdais: From one occupation to another. In: Télérama, 22. März 2011. “Confronts the subject head-on, a remarkable mini-series in four episodes […] unless you are already bristling with certainty, you come out of The Promise with far more questions than answers.”
John Crace: TV review. In: The Guardian, 7. Februar 2011. “It’s that rarest of TV beasts: a show that doesn’t patronise its audience, (mostly) steers clear of cliches and trusts the characters to tell the story in their own time.”
Andrew Anthony: Rewind TV: The Promise. In: The Observer vom 13. Februar 2011. “Anthony felt it considerably better than Kosminsky’s previous dramas and that it ‘seldom relaxed its grip..a serious, powerful and nuanced drama’ but said: ‘At first there was a stockpile of emotional capital awarded to the Jewish side of the equation, with horrifying footage from Nazi concentration camps setting up the audience’s sympathy for the existence of Israel. But a closer look revealed that the scales had been subtly loaded… the problem with the difference in treatment of the two sides is not, as some may claim, that it favours the Arab cause but that it does a disservice to Arabs themselves. We glimpse the psychological complexities of the English observers and their Jewish Israeli hosts, but the Palestinian Arabs are largely ciphers on whom western guilt can be readily projected. They remain, in other words, what critics of orientalism like to call ‘other’. We’re not privy to the doubts and conflicts of their beliefs, and consequently as characters they're not quite as worthy of our belief.’”
Harriet Sherwood: The Promise: powerful TV drama at its best. In: The Guardian website, 7. Februar 2011. “Vivid, harrowing and utterly compelling… This is a magnificent and powerful piece of drama, television at its best. Watch it if you can; I can’t recommend it enough.” und Ian Black: The Promise delivers but still divides. In: The Guardian website, 14. Februar 2011. “It’s a real achievement that this four-parter is so well-grounded in the history of the world’s most intractable conflict.”
Andrew Anthony: Rewind TV. In: The Observer, 6. März 2011. “The story was stretched still further by strained geographical leaps from Jerusalem to Haifa to Hebron and Gaza, whose only rationale appeared to be to maximise the depiction of Israeli wrongdoing […] Nor was it feasible that, having been shot and then held captive in a hole in the ground for weeks, that Erin’s grandfather, Sergeant Matthews would still be almost single-handedly carrying out the British army’s duties in Palestine. Any more than it was likely that he and a young Arab boy would have walked around the unfolding massacre at Deir Yassin, where 107 Arabs were slaughtered by the Irgun on the eve of Israel’s creation, like a pair of sightseers visiting Pompeii. But for all these faults, and the lopsided storytelling, this was still an exceptional drama.”
Caitlin Moran: TV column. In: The Times, 12. Februar 2010. “almost certainly the best drama of the year.”
Andrew Billen: Weekend TV.The Times, 14. Februar 2011.
David Chater: The Promise: sure to cause controversy. In: The Times vom 5. Februar 2011. “an ambitious drama on a subject of paramount importance… immensely watchable.”
Sunday’s TV: The Promise. In: The Times vom 27. Februar 2011. “It is refreshing to see an ambitious drama tackling a subject of such importance.”
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Stephen Kelly: Compelling drama is outside comfort zone. In: Tribune vom 25. Februar 2011. “as good as anything currently showing on British television… beautifully filmed and superbly acted… a multi-layered drama that is both thought-provoking and compelling.”
Thierry Gandillot: The Promise keeps its promises. (Memento des Originals vom 24. März 2011 im Internet Archive) Info: Der Archivlink wurde automatisch eingesetzt und noch nicht geprüft. Bitte prüfe Original- und Archivlink gemäß Anleitung und entferne dann diesen Hinweis.@1@2Vorlage:Webachiv/IABot/www.lesechos.fr In: Les Echos, 21. März 2011. “Exceptional, stunningly intelligent” […] the serious acting and considered dialogue “measure up to the ambition of this film, which does not bring unanimity but makes a proof of sincerity.”