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Article: MORTENSEN SHINES IN 'EASTERN PROMISES'
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- Roanoke Times & World News
- Article date:
- September 22, 2007
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John Wayne and John Ford. Alfred Hitchcock and Cary Grant. Ridley
Scott and Russell Crowe.
Sometimes actors and directors click so successfully that they
establish ongoing collaborations.
Add to the list Viggo Mortensen and David Cronenberg. "Eastern
Promises" is their second collaboration, and it bodes well for any
future projects.
Like "A History of Violence," their acclaimed debut as a duo, it's
a sharp and riveting crime thriller. Cronenberg spent his first
directorial incarnation reworking the horror movie. Now he's taking
on gritty and lurid underworld yarns and it looks like he's a man
made for the job.
This one's set in London where Russian expatriate gangsters have
set up stakes.
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