Border (2018)
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In this story by the author of Let the Right One In, a customs officer can smell guilt on travelers before they know they carry it. She has never been wrong. A man crosses her checkpoint and her nose tells her something is off, but not what, and not why she suddenly feels less alone than she has in her entire life.
BORDER (2018), released as Gräns, follows Tina, a border guard whose heightened senses have made her a legend at her post.
Eva Melander plays Trina, unrecognizable under prosthetics. Eero Milonoff plays Vore, the stranger whose scent she cannot categorize.Ali Abbasi directs from a script he wrote with novelist John Ajvide Lindqvist and Isabella Eklöf.
What begins as a procedural about smuggling turns into something else entirely, a story about Tina's own body and ancestry, and what she owes to a world that has only ever called her ugly. The Denmark-Sweden co-production refuses easy categories of monster and human, guilt and innocence.
It is a fairy tale told with the patience of a police drama, and it does not flinch from where that patience leads.
About the Film
Sense something beautiful
- Directed By
- Ali Abbasi
- Runtime
- 110 minutes
- Released
- September 27, 2018
- US Theatrical
- October 26, 2018
- Certification
- R
- Country
- Denmark, Sweden
- Starring
- Eva Melander, Eero Milonoff, Jörgen Thorsson, Ann Petrén, Sten Ljunggren
More Credits
- Genres
- Fantasy, Drama, Crime
- Language
- Swedish
- Origin
- SE
- Studios
- Meta Film Stockholm, Black Spark Film & TV, Film i Väst, SVT, Meta Film, Copenhagen Film Fund, Kärnfilm
- Written By
- Ali Abbasi, John Ajvide Lindqvist, Isabella Eklöf
- Produced By
- Anna Croneman, Daniel Sachs, Erika Wasserman, Håkan Pettersson, Thomas Gammeltoft, Peter Nyrén, Peter Gustafsson, Louis Tisné, Nina Bisgaard, Meta Louise Foldager Sørensen, Petra Jönsson, Tomas Eskilsson
- Cinematography
- Nadim Carlsen
- Music
- Christoffer Berg, Martin Dirkov
- Also Starring
- Kjell Wilhelmsen, Rakel Wärmländer, Andreas Kundler, Matti Boustedt, Tomas Åhnstrand
- Box Office
- $2,000,000
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My single favorite film of the last ten years!
One of the most twisted films I’ve ever seen.
In Swedish BTW
Oran Sands Yep. That info is at the link (a little buried on the page) 🙂
There is a version floating around that has various substitles though.
Soooo…. they weren’t neanderthals?
More like a troll.
This film is an absolute masterpiece
Really liked this one a lot. Try to go in cold.
It’s a great movie. I wish I could watch it again having not seen it.
Such a great film! Now I want to re-watch it! 😃
Bloody brilliant!
Very strange movie.