Eastern Promises

 With grand ambition to see all the movies that have been nominated for an Academy Award but with little motivation to travel to far away theatres to actually SEE any of these movies AND only now getting started… let’s just say, ambition and results will likely not meet. Not even in the middle, half way; only a tiny few.

                  I’m dependent on Netflix to see what I can do!

Viggo Mortenson has been nominated in the Best Actor category for his role Eastern Promises. He plays a Russian gangster in London. I enjoyed his performance; his casual toughness and yet the kindness in his eyes.

I’m just the driver.

I was particularly impressed with the accents – Naomi Watts did a very credible job and gave a subtle performance as the midwife who attempts to locate the family of a young girl who died while giving birth to a beautiful healthy baby girl.    Anna is of Russian descent but does not speak the language.   She finds a diary in the bag of the pregnant girl, also Russian, and thus begins her mission to make sense of this tragedy by asking some questionable characters to help her translate.

Is she fortunate for her to have Viggo on her side?  or…   IS he on ‘her’ side?! 

The story was not as strong as I would hope; the graphic violence content is high.    A good movie but not a great one. 

I was lucky enough to wake up this morning with vague memory of a steamy dream in which Viggo played a starring role.   OOOooo la la!   

Up next:   Ratatouille!