Frontière(s) (2007)

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:

Shotgun | After Dark Horrorfest | Sadism | Lesbian Kiss | Throat Slitting

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) | USA:108 min

Country:

France | Switzerland

Language:

French | German

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

France:-16 | Switzerland:18 (canton of Vaud) | Switzerland:18 (canton of Geneva) | UK:18 | USA:NC-17 | Ireland: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)

Above average horror/slasher antics

If you like the slasher genre, specifically the Texas Chainsaw Massacre, you'll like this. This film has the same atmosphere of dread, of bad things about to happen, of bad people on the way to do bad stuff. It takes a lot longer to get to the gory part, so don't be discouraged by the first 45 minutes or so of drama. Once the killing, maiming and screaming start they don't let up.

I found it to be considerably bloodier than Texas Chainsaw Massacre, with about the same amount of suspense. There are a couple of moments when you're hoping the characters aren't really going to do what you just know they are going to do: those "ouch!" moments right before the bloodshed.

If you're tired of the slasher satire films and ready to get back to some old fashioned blood and gore, this one is for you.