Boarding Gate (2007)

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Olivier Assayas is best known for art house dramas, but what happens when he attempts an action thriller early(ishj) in his career? Well, Boarding Gate's first act does have long conversations and characters with strange interests and detailed backgrounds, but it soon picks up in terms of violence, twists, turns, and paranoia. Asia Argento is a sexy damaged beauty trying to escape a toxic relationship, and escape she will, though her flight turns into a tense globe-hopping affair. We're right there with her, no seeing a complete picture of circumstances, sometimes even behind her on certain things. Assayas has assembled an international cast that includes Michael Madsen, Kim Gordon from Sonic Youth(!), and a number of solid French and Chinese actors, to tell a story about being out of control, letting others make the calls in our lives, and to my mind, only gives Argento's Sandra an actual choice and decision at the very end of the picture. A neat little thriller - grimy, perverse and absorbing. 1 week 6 days ago