Border

2018 ‘Gräns’ Directed by Ali Abbasi

Sense something beautiful

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.

Eva Melander Eero Milonoff Jörgen Thorsson Ann Petrén Sten Ljunggren Kjell Wilhelmsen Rakel Wärmländer Andreas Kundler Matti Boustedt Viktor Åkerblom-Nilsson Joakim Olsson

Alternative Titles

Border - Tina ist... etwas ganz Besonderes, Border - Sense something beautiful, Marz, مرز, Grans Border

drama crime fantasy

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Popular reviews

Review by Stevie ★★★★ 6

This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

I thought this would just be a nice little fairy tale, but instead I got a heartwarming and inspiring film about an ordinary woman discovering she's actually a Top.
Review by caleb 🥪 ★★½ 8

when a character said that his name was Vore the guy next to me put his head in his hands and sighed
Review by Sean Baker 8

An incredible film. May be my fave of 2018.
Official submission of Sweden for the 'Best Foreign Language Film' category of the 91st Academy Awards in 2019
Screened at Laemmle's Royal Theater.
Review by adrianbalboa ★★★ 5

two thoughts:
1. watching foreign films without subtitles is not so bad! the visuals are great and can speak for themselves
2. me definitely not fluent
Review by Chris Hormann ★★★½ 11

That sex scene will haunt me for years. I've got nothing else sorry.
Review by matt lynch ★★★ 5

Up until this completely sabotages itself with an unnecessary thriller subplot it's a fairly sweet and very empathetic love story tinged with magical realism and a fascinating thread about fluid bodies. There's also a huge and particularly creepy loose end that's way too weird to go unremarked upon.
Review by BeHaind ★★★★½ 5

Unglaublich faszinierender Mix aus nordirischer Mythologie und Folklore, zeitgenössischem Setting und verquerer Love-Story. Ungeschönt anders, spielt „Border“ gekonnt mit dem Ekel vor dem Andersartigen, existenzialistischen Fragen und kleidet das Ganze dennoch in eine wunderbar zärtliche Liebesgeschichte. Brillant gespielt, toll gefilmt in starken Bildern und bedrückender Atmosphäre. Ich bin schwer verliebt in diesen Film!
Review by Seamus ★★★

No one in this movie was a good kisser.
Review by LeSchroeck ★★★★ 4

Seid gewarnt. Aber seid bitte auch offen, neugierig und so umsichtig, nicht zu viel über diesen Film vorab rauszufinden. Das, was hier gezeigt wird, braucht hier und da ein paar Szenen zu viel, ergeht sich vielleicht auch in dem einen oder anderen Waldspaziergang, aber wird schön und stimmig aufgelöst. Und es beinhaltet Momente, die ordentlich aufs Gemüt schlagen. Oder die Ihr im Leben noch nicht gesehen habt (vielleicht auch nie sehen wolltet). Ein Film über Bestimmung, Ekel, Mitgefühl und Liebe. Hat mir gefallen.
Review by sofyan ★★★★ 4

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- That was so fuckin' interesting!
- Unique.
- Weird.
- Sex scene is the best. Omg literally I'm shook!
- Amazing performances by Eva Melander and Eero Milonoff.
- Amazing make-up.
- Troll.
- Nature.
- Beatiful cinematography.
- Swedish.
- It really deserves an Oscar Nominee.
- Great storytelling from Ali Abbasi. Love it.
Review by Hollie Horror ★★★ 10

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I am ALL FOR more trolls & folklore & changelings & gender exploration but did Gräns really need the baby rape thriller subplot thrown in to the mix? 'Cause that's gonna be a no from me.
Review by Cinematic Underdogs ★★★★½ 5

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A surprisingly tender, sensuously rich, & ultimately heart-wrenching love story about hermaphroditic trolls: please count me in!

Recent reviews

Review by evan femino ★★★½

Tendrils. Squishy babies. Forest sex.
Review by juanmigg ★★★

This was interesting…… that’s all i’ll say at this time.
Review by Nate Helton ★★★★

Non-Mandatory MFSS Week 2
There’s a section within the last 20 minutes of this that is as if Michael Mann directed a Guillermo Del Toro script.
Masterful and surely career-defining performances by the two leads in a story that doesn’t get too carried away with the supernatural elements.
I honestly don’t remember how this got onto my watchlist, but I’m glad it did. A really good movie.
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Beautiful movie, perfect in any sense. Kinda like Tarzan but the other way around. Don’t have anything more to say, just watch it.
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Masterpiece. 걸작이다 !
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Review by Leah! ★★★★

this was such a weird movie, but also so well done. i still dont really get the whole baby thing, but everything else wasnt to hard to understand.
Review by Hannah ★★★½

A thoroughly fascinating trip of a movie but I gtg sanitize my eyeballs now
Review by carter ★★★★

Went into this thinking it was a drama… nope it’s a horror that made me cry
Review by Steven Millan ★★★

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Beautiful and bold. At a loss for words. You will go places and you will be beguiled.
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can vore stop smiling it makes me so uncomfortable. also play dough baby