Border

Name: Border
Director: Ali Abbasi
Genre: Crime/detective, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Romance
Released: 2018
Duration: 1 h 50 min
Cast: Eva Melander, Eero Milonoff, Jörgen Thorsson, Ann Petren, Sten Ljunggren

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Crime/detective
Drama

2018
Ali Abbasi
110 mins
15

Summary

Nordic noir psycho-drama starring Eva Melander and Eero Milonoff. Customs officer Tina transgresses everything she stands for when she develops a strange friendship with Vore, the suspect she senses is hiding something.

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A star rating of 4 out of 5.

Jeremy Aspinall

Director Ali Abassi's 2016 debut feature Shelley and its demonic-progeny story was firmly in Rosemary's Baby territory. However, it's hard to pigeonhole his second film, even if it is based on a short story by the author of Let the Right One In. A weird romantic thriller, with the emphasis on weird, it stars Eva Melander as Tina, a brutish-looking Swedish customs officer who can literally sniff out contraband as well as a person's guilt on arrival at her port. But when she pulls aside eerily similar-looking Vore (Eero Milonoff) during a routine check, something primal surfaces and a strange attraction develops between the misfit pair. To reveal more would be to spoil this unusual but compelling curio, which takes dark and daring left-field turns along the way, some of which will have you scraping your jaw from the floor. It's no surprise the picture copped an Oscar nomination for the make-up, as it not only creates a unique look but also allows Melander and Milonoff to deliver convincingly nuanced performances. Meanwhile, Nadim Carlsen's cinematography beautifully captures the sensual world where their relationship blossoms and blooms.

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7.0/10

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rolenameTinaEva MelanderVoreEero MilonoffRolandJörgen ThorssonAgnetaAnn PetrenTina's fatherSten LjunggrenDanielKjell WilhelmsenThereseRakel WarmlanderRobertAndreas KundlerTomasMatti Boustedt