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Article: The Akron Beacon Journal, Ohio, Rich Heldenfels column: 'Eastern Promises' - Russian intrigue.(Column)
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- Akron Beacon Journal (Akron, OH)
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- September 21, 2007
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Byline: Rich Heldenfels
Sep. 21--"I am driver," the enigmatic Russian Nikolai Luzhin says in the new movie Eastern Promises. "I go left. I go right. I go straight ahead. That's it." Of course, Nikolai is more than just a driver. And the brutal, addictive Eastern Promises is more than just a conventional thriller even as it goes left, right and sometimes violently straight ahead. The movie is a new collaboration between director David Cronenberg and actor Viggo Mortensen, who plays Nikolai. The two teamed previously for the brooding pulp fiction of A History of Violence.
Like that movie and a lot of Cronenberg's work The Brood, Videodrome, Dead ...
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