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Article: VIGGO IS CHARMING, INTENSE IN "EASTERN PROMISES'.(CNY)(Column)
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- The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY)
- Article date:
- September 21, 2007
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Byline: JOAN E. VADEBONCOEUR ENTERTAINMENT COLUMNIST
The Hollywood hype that has rumored Viggo Mortensen as a best-actor Oscar nominee, for once, is probably correct. His performance in "Eastern Promises" encompasses a range of emotions from bloodless man to casual charmer to conflict.
His second partnership with filmmaker David Cronenberg is even better than "A History of Violence" since the new one supplies a deeper character to flesh out. Mortensen manages them all with seeming ease, then flavors it further with a three-man fight to the death that definitely had no stunt double for the star and also was done nude, unless you count numerous tattoos as ...