Boarding Gate

Boarding Gate (2007)

Miles (Michael Madsen) ist ein Größe in der Finanzwelt. Sandra (Asia Argento) erledigt Kurierdienste und spezielle Aufträge für Miles. Der ist in einige krumme Geschäfte verstrickt. Er missbraucht Sandra öfter als Entscheidungshilfe in kritischen Geschäftssituationen mit SM Spielchen. Als sie hat darauf keine Lust mehr hat, merkt sie, dass Miles sie niemals freiwillig gehen lassen wird. Sie schießt mehrmals auf ihn und flieht mit ihrem neuen Freund, dem chinesischen Killer Lester, nach Hongkong. Doch auch Lester hat so seine Geheimnisse und Sandra steht bald nur noch mit dem Rücken zur Wand.

Erscheinungsdatum
2007-08-22
TMDB
5.0 / 10 (122)
Laufzeit
1 Std. 46 Min.
Genres
Thriller, Drama
Regie
Olivier Assayas

Besetzung

Wissenswertes

  • Einspielergebnis: 895.000 $
  • Budget: 2,8 Mio. $
  • Spielte das 0,3-Fache des Budgets ein
  • Gedreht in: Paris und Hongkong

Boarding Gate is a 2007 French thriller film about the sophisticated power plays between a debt-ridden underworld entrepreneur, his provocative and ambitious ex-associate and a manipulative young couple who employ her. Written and directed by Olivier Assayas, the film features an international cast comprising Asia Argento, Michael Madsen, Carl Ng and Kelly Lin. Kim Gordon also plays a supporting role as an enigmatic businesswoman forced to intervene as events unfold in Hong Kong.

Production

Writer-director Olivier Assayas cites the inspiration of the film's driving themes as a news story relating the murder of financier Édouard Stern during an S&M play session at the hands of his long-term lover, prostitute Cecile Brossard. The incident evoked the tone of his previous work on corporate deviancy, Demonlover, and he determined to use it as the pivotal event for a new script.

The title Boarding Gate was the director's second choice for the film. His first, departed—a reference to the passport stamp applied by Hong Kong border officials upon leaving the country—had to be scrapped during filming upon the 2006 release of Martin Scorsese's The Departed. The final title was selected since it evokes the many easy conduits in the film, "the idea of a passage between two worlds."

The film's style, described as "Eurotrash," is—according to Assayas—an experiment in "constructing a project around B-movie economics".

Assayas decided to embark on the "B-movie" concept after frustrating financial complications interminably delayed production of another of his projects, intended to be "a very French film focusing on provincial life;" similar circumstances led to making of his previous film with Maggie Cheung, Irma Vep. The total cost of the film was under €2 million.

The film was shot over six weeks in just two locations: Paris and Hong Kong. The Hong Kong crew was entirely local, with the exception of the cinematographer, the sound engineer, the assistant, the script supervisor, the line producer and the director himself. Most of the filming was done with hand-held cameras, and Assayas admits to having obtained some of his shots illegally due to the restrictive nature of local permits.

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