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Eastern Promises (2007) - David Cronenbergs EASTERN PROMISES is a strong and powerfully mounted drama that revels in the directors trademark esoteric

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2007-10-07 17:38:11 by craiger in Craiger's Cinema Corner
...PROMISES, which I think sort of embellishes and fine tunes some of the prevalent themes that were contained in A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE. In terms of story, the two films could not be any different. VIOLENCE was more of a low key, small town morality parable, whereas EASTERN PROMISES has more expansive settings and personas: its located...
 
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Promises Promises

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2007-10-27 13:13:00 by John in Confessions of a Film Critic
...Promises , a sister film to his scorching History of Violence , opens with a throat slashed in a barbers chair and a pregnant teenager collapsing in a pool of blood on a chemists tiled floor. The girl, just fourteen, dies in hospital, where Russian-English midwife Anna Khitrova (played by Naomi Watts) has managed to save her baby Troubled by...
 
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Eastern Promises

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2007-11-29 11:53:00 by Pacze Moj in Critical Culture
...Promises . Although I'm not usually a fan of Cronenberg's works (a notable exception being Videodrome ), this one's truly greatso cleanly and precisely made, from one frame to the next until the last Blood is to be expected in a Cronenberg film, but it's rarely blood in any one context. In just the first three scenes of Eastern Promises ,...
 
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Movie Review: Eastern Promises

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2007-12-16 15:21:00 by Regnard Kreisler C. Raquedan in Screensucked
...Promises is, this may be first lukewarm review of a limited release film I watched here So what's the deal with Eastern Promises? It's a mob movie set in the London Russian Mafia scene and we see two different people set the story into a complex moral weaving. Issues of family, crime, apathy and corruption are dealt with in a very unsettling...
 
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David Cronenberg Promises Theres No Master Plan

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2008-01-03 14:24:37 by Larry Carroll in MTV Movies Blog
...Promises continuing to grow as it debuts on DVD, we caught up with the iconic auteur to get his thoughts on neck-slicing, the perceived stages of his back catalog, and whether he and James Woods predicted the Internet way back in 1983 MTV: David, some people are calling Promises an unofficial sequel to A History of Violence. Was that your...
 
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Movie Review: Eastern Promises

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2007-12-16 07:21:00 by Regnard Kreisler C. Raquedan in Screensucked
...Promises is, this may be first lukewarm review of a limited release film I watched here So what's the deal with Eastern Promises? It's a mob movie set in the London Russian Mafia scene and we see two different people set the story into a complex moral weaving. Issues of family, crime, apathy and corruption are dealt with in a very unsettling...
 
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Movie Review: Eastern Promises

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2007-12-16 07:21:00 by Regnard Kreisler C. Raquedan in Screensucked
...Promises is, this may be first lukewarm review of a limited release film I watched here So what's the deal with Eastern Promises? It's a mob movie set in the London Russian Mafia scene and we see two different people set the story into a complex moral weaving. Issues of family, crime, apathy and corruption are dealt with in a very unsettling...
 
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Promises, Weddings and a Black Book

2007-10-14 22:49:00 by Sachin G. in Scribbles and Ramblings
 
...Promises (2007, Director David Cronenberg, Writer Steven Knight ) Russian Prison Tattoos, Mafia, Crime, Prostitution -- all in London. But one can't look at London and ignore soccer, especially the Russian factor in the English game today Follow the game. The film starts with a barber, Azim, forcing his son (Ekrem) to slit the throat of a...
 
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Eastern Promises (2007): A-

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2007-11-05 20:55:00 by rob humanick in The Projection Booth
...Promises isn't, however, just a regurgitation of previously explored concepts - it furthers them into new realms of the human experience, simultaneously revisiting and reinventing. As with A History of Violence , the focus here is on that of identity, how we view ourselves in relationship to the world and how that very self-awareness can come...
 
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