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Saturday, March 16, 2019

Border (2018)

This is a movie that would be best seen rather than read the reviews, because I think it is hard to capture the underlying atmosphere of the movie in words.  Well, at least my words.  It was snubbed in the Best Foreign Language film shortlist (which is a list of ten), but captured a nomination for Make Up.  It did not win, but it was my choice in that category.
The story is about Tina, a border guard who literally has a nose for people who are misbehaving.  She is disfigured in a noticeable but not quite grotesque way.  She  lives an isolated life with a roommate who is really her friend until she meets another of her kind.  He is less attractive personally than she is, but he knows who he is and he travels around basically enjoying himself.  He reveals to Tina her previously unknown history and for a while she is quite taken with him.  It has been called a horror movie, and I can see why, but that really doesn't capture the underlying tensions about otherness that pervades the movie.  Very worth watching.

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