Synopsis
When a border guard with a sixth sense for identifying smugglers encounters the first person she cannot prove is guilty, she is forced to confront terrifying revelations about herself and humankind.
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Cast
- Eva MelanderTina
- Eero MilonoffVore
- Jörgen ThorssonRoland
- Ann PetrénAgneta
- Sten LjunggrenTina's Father
- Kjell WilhelmsenDaniel
- Rakel WärmländerTherese
- Andreas KundlerRobert
- Matti BoustedtTomas
- Tomas ÅhnstrandStefan
Recommendations
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Uproxx
It’s not quite horror, crime, or comedy — it really just is “fantastic,” in every sense of the word. - 83
The Film Stage
Border is only really at its best when focusing on Tina’s rediscovery of her true nature. - 83
IndieWire
Abbasi grounds the narrative in an emotional foundation even as it flies off the rails. - 83
The Playlist
Unique, unforgettable and cathartic, Border is an oddball, but poignant cult classic in the making. Abbasi’s sincerity wisely avoids caricature and mocking his marginalized characters and in doing so he crafts a surprisingly humanist and artful story of love for the diminished and dismissed outsiders of the world. - 83
The A.V. Club
Just when you think you’ve seen it all, along comes Border. A thematically rich and deeply strange blend of romantic drama, magical-realist fantasy, and crime thriller, Sweden’s official entry to this year’s Academy Awards splits the difference between the highbrow cringe comedy of "Toni Erdmann" and the lowbrow cop fantasy "Bright." - 80
CineVue
Border is a piece of modern gothic, a far out midnight movie which delivers on the WTF-ery while maintaining a surprisingly big and generous heart. - 80
Screen Daily
One of the things that truly impresses about Border is the way Abbasi successfully juggles so many disparate plot elements and then brings them together like a well tuned orchestra. - 75
TheWrap
Border is dark and unsettling and proudly deranged.
