I sort of remembered Eastern
Promises, David Cronenberg’s film about a woman who gets mixed up in the
dealings of the Russian mafia in London, as a much more significant movie the
first time around. The stakes felt much higher when I saw it on its initial run
in cinemas. Maybe this is a movie that really loses something once you know who
is who and what their real motivations are. When you don’t know what’s coming,
the film really feels dangerous because the Russian mafia might do anything to
anyone at any time.
