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'Border' ('Gräns') by Ali Abbasi

SENSE SOMETHING BEAUTIFUL

When a border guard with a sixth sense for identifying smugglers encounters the first person she cannot prove is guilty, she is forced to confront terrifying revelations about herself and humankind.

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by Anonymousreply 8March 5, 2019 10:01 PM

Border (Swedish: Gräns) is a 2018 Swedish fantasy film directed by Ali Abbasi with a screenplay by Abbasi, Isabella Eklöf and John Ajvide Lindqvist based on the short story of the same name by Ajvide Lindqvist from his anthology Let the Old Dreams Die. It won the Un Certain Regard award at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival, and was selected as the Swedish entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 91st Academy Awards.

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by Anonymousreply 1December 12, 2018 10:23 AM

Alissa Simon of Variety described the film as "an exciting, intelligent mix of romance, Nordic noir, social realism, and supernatural horror that defies and subverts genre conventions"

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by Anonymousreply 2December 12, 2018 10:24 AM

It sounds exhausting.

by Anonymousreply 3December 12, 2018 11:19 AM

Ali Abbasi is Iranian-Swedish

by Anonymousreply 4December 12, 2018 9:00 PM

Awards

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by Anonymousreply 5December 13, 2018 3:36 PM

My friend warned me this was weird, but I'm thinking, how weird can this be?

Pretty freaking weird is the answer.

It's a Swedish film that Movie Pass picked up. It's unusual, obviously. For the most part, it's interesting, but lacks the power of a film in a similar vein like Beast. Still, it's definitely worth a watch.

by Anonymousreply 6March 5, 2019 8:55 PM

What is it? Is there a political message?

by Anonymousreply 7March 5, 2019 9:07 PM

Ugly not watching this one.

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by Anonymousreply 8March 5, 2019 10:01 PM
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