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Eastern Promises that is - -a  critical success!

Festival Opener Gets Thumbs Up From Critics
By JOHN HOPEWELL, MARIA ALVAREZ RILLA
Posted: Thurs., Sep. 20, 2007, 8:01am PT

SAN SEBASTIAN - As Nikolai, the Russian mafioso played by Viggo Mortensen in David Cronenberg’s “Eastern Promises,” plunged a knife into the eye of a Chechen mobster, the audience at its San Sebastian press screening on Thursday morning let out a collective groan… and then burst into applause.

Read more about it http://www.variety.com/index.asp?layout=festivals&jump=story&id=2700&articleid=VR1117972357

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