Frontier

Frontier (1984)

De grens

Director Leon de Winter has taken a thriller with political and psychological overtones, and scrambled it into a series of vignettes that are mixed-up in time and in location, thereby dashing any hope of following the story. A journalist goes to a southern European country to interview a well-known terrorist who has refused to stop his activities even though the revolution he fought for ended successfully five years earlier. Questions are raised about adopting violence as a way of life without at first realizing it and about the seeming impossibility of raising the consciousness of backwater cultures. Perhaps because of the way the story has been filleted into fragments, characters like the journalist and terrorist do not have enough continuous screen time to build up their individuality, a second factor that makes it difficult to become involved in the drama.

Date of release
1984-03-26
TMDB
9.0 / 10 (1)
Runtime
1h 40m
Genres
Thriller, Drama
Director
Leon de Winter

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Interesting facts

De grens is a 1984 Dutch thriller film directed by Leon de Winter. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1984 Cannes Film Festival.

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