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Eastern Promises ****
UK/Canada/USA: David Cronenberg, 2007
I wasn't too taken by David Cronenberg's previous two films, Spider and A History of Violence, but this one, while very much a companion piece to them, for some reason appealed to me much more. Maybe it's the excellent cast, including Naomi Watts, Viggo Mortensen, Sinéad Cusack and Vincent Cassel, but the other two films had stellar talent in front of the camera as well (including Mortensen, in the case of A History of Violence). Maybe it's the fact that the London location resonates with me more than Violence's small-town America - but then again, Spider was also set in London. It's not even the subject matter, since gangster movies generally irritate me. (Not that this is a typical gangster movie in any sense: for one thing, the gangsters in this film don't say "fuck" in every sentence and call each other "faggots" every five minutes. For another, it's not shot in near-black and white, headache-inducing shakeycam.) I don't know why, but this one really clicked for me, and I'm sorry I didn't get to see it before the end of 2007, because, if I had, it would have garnered a pretty high position in my annual Top 10.
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Welcome to the movie checklist!
This section is an archive listing every movie I've seen from January 1 2005 onwards. Films I have already seen are included and will be marked with a (*), but probably won't be reviewed except under special circumstances. I will be including a rating for each film (in stars, out of 5), and hope to be able to include a brief 1-2 paragraph review of each film, although due to time constraints that won't always be possible.
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