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Border (Gräns)
Customs officer Tina is known for her extraordinary sense of smell. It's almost as if she can sniff out the guilt on anyone hiding something. But when Vore, a suspicious-looking man, walks past her, her abilities are challenged for the first time ever. Tina can sense Vore is hiding something she can't identify. Even worse, she feels a strange attraction to him. As Tina develops a special bond with Vore and discovers his true identity, she also realizes the truth about herself. Tina, like Vore, does not belong to this world. Her entire existence has been one big lie and now she has to choose: keep living the lie or embrace Vore's terrifying revelations.
January 31, 1981 in Söderköping, Östergötlands Län, Sweden
October 3, 1980
December 17, 1984 in Gothenburg, Västra Götalands län, Sweden
May 1, 1980 in Helsinki, Finland
11 February 1974, Stockholm, Sweden
18 December 1959, Helsinki, Finland
18 December 1952, Sweden
October 27, 2018
The weird and wonderful gothic tale behaves like David Cronenberg's misbegotten son. Abbasi's film requires the audience to navigate past layers of repulsiveness before you recognize that what you are seeing is an abstract form of beauty.October 26, 2018
Border is therefore representative of the geographical line separating Tina's native country of Sweden with its neighbors as well as the one between nature and nurture.October 25, 2018
As cold as possible is a good way to see it. This is a movie that aims to startle in overt and subtextual ways; the less known before viewing, the better.October 25, 2018
In Tina, she has crafted a central character that's easy to appreciate, and often fascinating, but hard to like, and equally often deliberately off-putting. Which is also a fair description of Border.October 28, 2018
It's a film of great breath and insights, one that makes you see beyond appearances to get a better understanding of people and the way they think.October 26, 2018
John Ajvide Lindqvist's new film is a dark, twisted fairy tale that is worth watching so long as you know that it's no Disney fable-and it is definitely not for children.October 25, 2018
"Border" may not be everyone's idea of a fun night out, but it takes you to places you won't forget, and that's nothing to sniff at.October 26, 2018
Explores its boundary-pushing notions in ways that can be bracingly stimulating, even when they aren't always dramatically satisfying.October 25, 2018
Just when you think you've seen it all, along comes Border.October 25, 2018
One of the biggest risks Border takes is in the deliberateness with with it slow-walks Tina's journey to self-realization.October 26, 2018
Even the most open-minded viewers may have difficulty relating to the two lead protagonists in Border, a cynical Swedish romantic-fantasy.October 25, 2018
The refreshingly offbeat, sturdily handled "Border" is not just unlikely to resemble any of its subtitled competition but also anything else you'll see this year.