David Cronenberg's thriller about a naive midwife who becomes entangled with London-based Russian gangsters is an icily seductive parable about family, power, unconventional justice and the perils of answered prayers.
Living with her mother (Sinead Cusack) after a difficult breakup, Anna Khitrova (Naomi Watts) maintains only the most tenuous connection to her late father's Russian roots — mostly the truculent presence of her hard-drinking, unapologetically bigoted Uncle Stepan (Polish filmmaker Jerzy Skolimowski) — until a brutalized Russian teenager dies while giving birth on Anna's watch. It's the height of the holiday season, and Anna, still shaken by h...
Released:
2007
Rated:
R
Length:
100 mins