DAVID CRONENBERG - CRONENBERG FILM TO OPEN LONDON FESTIVAL

CRONENBERG FILM TO OPEN LONDON FESTIVAL

Canadian director David Cronenberg's thriller Eastern Promises has been set to open the London Film Festival on October 17. The movie, set in London, features Viggo Mortensen as a member of the Russian Mafia in London and Naomi Watts as a nurse looking into the death of a Russian girl who had been working as a prostitute for the Russian gangsters. The film reteams Cronenberg with Mortensen who previously appeared in the director's History of Violence. Festival director Sandra Hebron said in a statement, "This gripping, powerfully directed and acted story of lives colliding in contemporary London is the perfect opener."


01/08/2007