Frontière(s) (2007)

User Rating:

6.1/10   

Director:

Xavier Gens

Writer:

Xavier Gens (writer)

Release Date:

23 January 2008 (France)

Genre:

Crime | Drama | Horror | Thriller

Tagline:

What are your boundaries?

Plot:

A gang of young thieves flee Paris during the violent aftermath of a political election, only to hole up at an Inn run by neo-Nazis.

Plot Keywords:

Paris | Hospital | Riot | Nazi | Screaming

Cast

Karina Testa	...	Yasmine
Samuel Le Bihan	...	Goetz
Estelle Lefébure	...	Gilberte
Aurélien Wiik	...	Alex
David Saracino	...	Tom
Chems Dahmani	...	Farid
Maud Forget	...	Eva
Amélie Daure	...	Klaudia
Rosine Favey	...	La vieille trachéo
Adel Bencherif	...	Sami
Joël Lefrançois	...	Hans
Patrick Ligardes	...	Karl
Jean-Pierre Jorris	...	Le Von Geisler
Stéphane Jacquot	...	Le policier
Christine Culerier	...	Infirmière urgences

Also Known As:

Frontières (France) (working title)
Frontier(s) (International: English title)
La frontera del miedo (Argentina) (DVD title) (Mexico) [es]
Frontier(s) (Finland) (DVD title) [fi]
Frontiers - Ai confini dell'inferno (Italy) [it]
Gefsi apo sarka (Greece) (DVD title) [el]
Granice (Croatia) [hr]
Sinir(da) (Turkey: Turkish title) [tr]

MPAA:

Rated NC-17 for extreme sadistic graphic violence and gore.

Runtime:

108 min

Country:

France | Switzerland

Language:

French | German

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

USA:NC-17 | UK:18 | France:-16 | Switzerland:18 (canton of Vaud) | Switzerland:18 (canton of Geneva) | Ireland:18 | Japan:R-18 | Australia:R | Argentina:18 | Germany:18 (cut) | Germany:18 (SPIO/JK) (cut) | Finland:K-18 (self applied) | Italy:VM18 | New Zealand:R18 | Portugal:M/18

Company:

Cartel Productions

Trivia:

Banned in Thailand for its violence.

Goofs:

Continuity: In the middle of the movie, when Farid escapes to the basement, he hits Karl in the face with a sledgehammer and knocks him down. Then, in the next scene Karl is sitting at the dinner table, with no mark of that stroke on his face.

Quotes:

[first lines]
Yasmine: My name is Yasmine. I'm three months pregnant. One day, someone said "Men are born free with equal rights". The world in which I live is the opposite. Who would want to be born to grow up in the chaos and the hate? I've decided to spare him the worst.

Movie Connections:

References The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974)

A shocking experience

I saw this movie at Sitges International Film Festival on October, 2007, and I am still trying to survive to the shock. I've seen lots of gore movies as I am a big fan of these kind of genre in cinemas, but I hardly remember something so cruel, so brutal, so anti-human, so dirty and so extreme. It's one of those movies that you must not see with your girlfriend, otherwise you're exposed to have a deep argument about your film tastes. So you are on your own, if you have the chance to take a glimpse to this movie, don't hesitate. It's, by far, one of the most thrilling experiences in the land of gore movies for about the last 10 years.