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DVD Details
- Rated: R
- Closed captioning available
- Run Time: 1 hours, 46 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: June 3, 2008
- Originally Released: 2007
- Label: Magnolia Home Ent
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Michael Madsen & Asia Argento | |
Performer: | Carl Ng, Kelly Lin, Joana Preiss, Alex Descas & Kim Gordon | |
Directed by | Olivier Assayas | |
Screenwriting by | Olivier Assayas | |
Produced by | François Margolin | |
Director of Photography: | Yorick Le Saux |
Entertainment Reviews:
As always, it's easy to be dazzled by Mr. Assayas's camerawork....His use of Brian Eno here is particularly potent. Mr. Eno creates music that drifts around you, enveloping you in moods and waves of feeling...
New York Times
In the spirit of the financial and creative constraints of B-movies, Assayas has taken his latest film [and] filled it with bare characters moving briskly across limited landscapes, and gotten a skimmed, thinned result of considerable kinetic emptiness.
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MUBI
In the gnarled distribution networks running through BOARDING GATE, Assayas' heroine is both a commodity and a cog...
Film Comment
3.5 stars out of 4 -- This is very much a French intellectual cineaste's idea of a B thriller, and hence is as far from innocent in its genre as you can get....There are some genuinely frisson-inducing twists...
Premiere
Rating: A- --
Distills genre tropes (and their consequent pleasures) to their lean, potent essence.
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Lessons of Darkness
Rating: 1/4 --
A ridiculous poseur thriller that seems to be made up of the slow moments from Hong Kong action films and Euro-flashy stuff like Run Lola Run.
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New York Daily News
"Boarding Gate" is mired in secondhand, vaguely political notions about globalization and unwilling to really let itself go to extremes.
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Gay City News
Product Description:
Director Oliver Assayas has established his name by crafting well-made erotic thrillers like DEMONLOVER and CLEAN. The director sticks closely to his guns by adding another similarly themed entry to his canon in BOARDING GATE. Assayas's film is a loosely plotted drama that stars the provocative Asia Argento (SCARLET DIVA) as Sandra, a former prostitute with a penchant for S&M, narcotics, and assassination. Sandra's former flame, sleazy businessman Miles (Michael Madsen), wants to get back together with her, and the two meet after indulging in some steamy phone sex. Sandra murders Miles during a bout of coital rough-and-tumble, and she flees to Hong Kong to be with her new lover, Lester (Carl Ng). But Sandra finds herself on the run as she arrives in Hong Kong, with Lester's wife, Sue (Kelly Lin), aiming to permanently cut her husband's mistress out of his life.
Assayas has a fondness for casting striking leading ladies, such as Maggie Cheung (IRMA VEP, CLEAN) and Connie Nielsen (DEMONLOVER), and Argento's role in BOARDING GATE fits neatly alongside these in the director's oeuvre. The early, dialogue-heavy scenes give Argento and Madsen plenty of time to establish their tawdry relationship, but when Assayas transports the action to Hong Kong, the movie takes a different turn as the director sets up some nerve-jarring chase sequences. The director infuses the movie with all his usual visual flair--the shaky, hand-held camera work and dimly lit sets perfectly reflect the seedy nature of Assayas's subject matter--but BOARDING GATE will mostly be remembered for Argento' s supremely confident performance.
Assayas has a fondness for casting striking leading ladies, such as Maggie Cheung (IRMA VEP, CLEAN) and Connie Nielsen (DEMONLOVER), and Argento's role in BOARDING GATE fits neatly alongside these in the director's oeuvre. The early, dialogue-heavy scenes give Argento and Madsen plenty of time to establish their tawdry relationship, but when Assayas transports the action to Hong Kong, the movie takes a different turn as the director sets up some nerve-jarring chase sequences. The director infuses the movie with all his usual visual flair--the shaky, hand-held camera work and dimly lit sets perfectly reflect the seedy nature of Assayas's subject matter--but BOARDING GATE will mostly be remembered for Argento' s supremely confident performance.
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