it seems David Cronenberg’s new film ‘Eastern Promises’ was shot in my manor of Deptford, also it looks like used the classic buger bar "mr wimpy" in deptford high street as a location as well as the river, so I'm looking forward to catching it has anyone seen it yet?
http://www.timeout.com/film/chicago/features/show-feature/3590/david-cronenberg-interview.html
Briefly, and at the dumbest zero level, if you scramble Frear's
Dirty Pretty Things (same scriptwriter, Steve Knight, chosen for his portrayals of embedded immigrant hothouse body-horror subcultures) with
Borat's wrestling-disgust desublimation (Cronenberg's Scorsese-like explosively redemptive climax being a gorefest hyper-choreographed ballet of butchery, tattoo-testicle designed for a S/M trio of wrestlers-from-hell in the theatrical claustrophobia of a Russian steam bath), with Viggo Mortensen reprising his split noir-character identity, from
A History of Violence , with the enigmatic past that problematizes the status of his present all in the context of an eroticized macho-on-macho violence, and further nods to
Mulholland Drive via oneiric Naomi Watts, and
Days of Heaven via a young though dead girls's voice-over narration, and finally, Cammell/Roeg's
Performance, with its ritualized internecine London-Mafio power violence, we might begin to summarize the film. As mainstream-accessible as
History to boot. In short, a euphorically deranged, psychohorrific, skin-flick-knife, eroto-viseral, deeply disturbing psychic invasion
up real close and personal.
Yeah, I'd reckon it's worth seeing, and you can read K-punk's review in next month's
Sight and Sound, though I''ll never agree with him on Cronenberg.
[Certainly trumps the just-over fuut-testicle anglo-roosky equivalent ...]