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Article: Movie review: Eastern Promises ****: Russian Roulette.(Movie review)
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- The Blade (Toledo, OH)
- Article date:
- September 21, 2007
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Byline: Christopher Borrelli
Sep. 21--Eastern Promises opens in the criminal underbelly of London. At first, it's the only footing we're given, though even that much is not to be assumed. An insolent young man sits in a barber's chair talking business with a doting old man; a teenage boy stands to one side, shifting his weight. It's not clear what we're looking at -- could be the Dickensian London of Sweeney Todd and its butchering hairstylists, the last remnant of tradition in a gun-metal smooth contemporary Britain, or, considering the Eastern European accents, a Slavic remake of The Godfather.
David Cronenberg winks.
He's doing all three, at ...
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