Frontière(s) (2007)

User Rating:

6.2/10   

Director:

Xavier Gens

Writer:

Xavier Gens (writer)

Release Date:

23 January 2008 (France)

Genre:

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:

Exploding Head | Mad Family | Cut Into Pieces | Video Camera | Gore

Cast

Karina Testa	...	Yasmine
Aurélien Wiik	...	Alex
Patrick Ligardes	...	Karl
David Saracino	...	Tom
Maud Forget	...	Eva
Samuel Le Bihan	...	Goetz
Chems Dahmani	...	Farid
Amélie Daure	...	Klaudia
Estelle Lefébure	...	Gilberte
Rosine Favey	...	La vieille trachéo
Adel Bencherif	...	Sami
Joël Lefrançois	...	Hans
Jean-Pierre Jorris	...	Le Von Geisler
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Hervé Berty	...	Agent de sécurité
Yannick Dahan

Also Known As:

Frontières (France) (working title)
Frontier(s) (International: English title)

MPAA:

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

Runtime:

Canada:108 min (Toronto International Film Festival) | Argentina:108 min | USA: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 (2008) | Argentina:18

Company:

Cartel Productions

Goofs:

Factual errors: 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)

Skip It

I'm surprised at all the glowing reviews here. I'm a huge fan of horror films, and I've been especially fond of some of the new French horror films being released over the past few years, but this one really missed the mark for me. I suppose my biggest gripe with this movie is that it was just plain boring. We've seen everything here a million times before. There were just no surprises and nothing fresh. I wanted to shut it off and go to bed, but I decided to stick it out. For that, I at least got to see a cool scene with a saw towards the end that was pretty neat, but it still didn't make this film anything more than average. This film borrows very heavily from Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Hostel. TCM is my favorite horror film ever, while I despise Hostel. I think the tone and look of Frontiers is so similar to Hostel, that it turned me off to the movie early on. And the story doesn't deviate too much from the classic TCM plot. I also really didn't like the acting from the lead during the last act. Sure, she had experienced a lot of brutality, but the zombie-like shaking and convulsing was a little over the top for me.

Meh....it's not a horrible film, and if you liked Hostel, you should give it a shot. But I definitely won't be watching it again anytime soon.