DAVID CRONENBERG - LONDON FILM FESTIVAL BEGINS

LONDON FILM FESTIVAL BEGINS

The 51st annual Times BFI London Film Festival got underway Wednesday night with the screening of David Cronenberg's Eastern Promises at the 1,900-seat Odeon Leicester Square theater, Europe's largest. The film, set in London, concerns a young midwife played by Naomi Watts, who becomes involved with a Russian mafia family when she accidentally discovers incriminating evidence against them. Wednesday night's audience gave the film a warm reception, applauding after one especially tense sequence. However, the film, which reportedly cost $50 million to make, flopped at the U.S. box office last month.

18/10/2007