Every sin leaves a mark.

Starring: Viggo Mortensen, Naomi Watts, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Vincent Cassel, Sinéad Cusack, Jerzy Skolimowski, Donald Sumpter, Josepf Altin

DML Rating: ★★★★★★★★★☆ - near perfect

"Forget any of this happened. Stay away from people like me." - Nikolai Luzhin

Why watch this? This is a rock solid, A+ Russian gangster film - a tense crime thriller.

Plot Summary: Anna, a London midwife, discovers a diary belonging to a pregnant teenage girl who dies in childbirth. Her efforts to translate the Russian-language diary and find the baby's family embroil her with a powerful Russian crime family that is involved in human trafficking. Anna finds herself increasingly drawn into a dangerous world of secrets, violence, and shifting loyalties as she tries to protect the baby and uncover the truth.

Dad's Preview: This new masterpiece from David Cronenberg is smart, intense, and really solidifies the director as one of the best in his profession. It's a story about the ultra-dangerous underworld of the Russian mafia, and how unwise it is for regular people to encounter or cross them. Watts, as usual, is perfect, but Mortensen, as "the driver" called Nikolai, who delivers maybe the best performance of his career to date. He's chilling. The fight scene in the bath house shower is unforgettable.

Focus Features, BBC Films, Astral Media, Corus Ent., Telefilm Canada,
Kudos Pictures, Serendipity Point Films, Scion Films; Pathé Distribution