Day 28 - Favorite movie from your favorite director
Eastern Promises (2007)
Viggo Mortensen, Naomi Watts, Armin Mueller-Stahl. Directed by: David Cronenberg
A midwife gets entangled with the Russian Mafia in London.
I don't usually go to the movies for the director. I find Cronenberg's work very interesting and appealing. It helps the fact that lately, he has been casting Viggo Mortensen. Although Cronenberg's narrative is rather violent and raw, Viggo helps to add dimensions and layers to the characters. This movie presents a dreadful underworld of sinister characters without no respect for innocent people. Viggo is amazingly authentic as a Russian hitman. Just like in his other movie, History of Violence, Cronenberg explores the most extraordinary characters submerged in normal-life situations.