Gräns (Border)
2018
*½
Director: Ali Abbasi
Cast: Eva Melander, Eero Milonoff, Viktor Åkerblom, Matti Boustedt, Jörgen Thorsson, Ann Petrén, Sten Ljunggren, Kjell Wilhelmsen, Rakel Wärmländer, Andreas Kundler, Tomas Åhnstrand, Josefin Neldén, Henrik Johansson, Ibrahim Faal, Åsa Janson, Donald Högberg
Tina is an unattractive customs officer who can detect fear and guilt. Her life changes when she meets Vore, a mysterious and similarly unsightly traveler, and gradually discovers her true origins. Ali Abbasi's darkly comic fantasy film definitely doesn't fit in a conventional box, but, in the same breath, it did absolutely nothing for me. I didn't find myself laughing, nor was I particularly intrigued. I was mostly perplexed and bored. Based on the John Ajvide Lindqvist's short story, which was included in his 2005 collection Let the Old Dreams Die.
