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Still Cronenberg

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Published on September 20, 2007

  • Anna (Naomi Watts) plunges into the London underground and finds a pair of corpse transporters (Cassel and, top, Mortensen).
    Anna (Naomi Watts) plunges into the London underground and finds a pair of corpse transporters (Cassel and, top, Mortensen).

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Directed by David Cronenberg. Written by Steven Knight. Starring Viggo Mortensen, Naomi Watts, Vincent Cassel, and Armin Mueller-Stahl. Rated R.

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Eastern Promises, a rhapsodic movie directed with considerable formal intelligence and brooding power
Deceptively generic, Eastern Promises features Cronenberg's most unambiguous monster and straightforward narrative in years; the movie is a cosmic struggle between good and evil. But it's also an elaborate game that's played out in a fallen world filled with subterfuge and delicately limned with the pain of exile. "I need to know who you are," Anna urgently begs Nikolai in the movie's haunting penultimate scene. Is our Nikolai an angel, or has Anna made a deal with the devil? And suppose that amounts to the same thing? As the sardonic Nikolai might say: "What does it matter?"

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