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Frontière(s) is a French slash fest about a group of thieves who flee the city with a stack of stolen money following the election of an extreme right wing government. They get separated into two groups following the shooting of one of their friends, and agree to meet up at a hotel in the country. Two of the friends find a family-run hotel in the middle of nowhere that makes the Bates Motel look like the Four Seasons. Things seem to be going well for the two thieves as they get acquainted with two of the family’s sisters. Unfortunately for them, the family is a clan of cannibalistic Nazis who run the hotel as a front for preying on unsuspecting tourist

As the banlieues of Paris burn due to riots protesting the election triumph of an extreme right-wing party, a group of youths use the chaos as cover for smash-and-grab robberies. For Yasmina (Karina Testa), the money is an escape from the slums she has known all her life. With the police on their tail, her gang splits up, planning to meet at an inn near the Luxembourg border. Arriving at their destination, they encounter their hosts, the Von Geisler clan, who seem to be stuck in time: a jackbooted patriarch, his savagely flirtatious daughters and his thuggish sons. Revealing themselves as neo-Nazi fanatics, they see Yasmina as a fresh bloodline for their fascistic fantasy of starting a new Aryan brotherhood. Her friends find themselves trapped in a grim abattoir as Yasmina fights against the Von Geisler’s invitation to become “one of the family” in their twisted Gothic household.

Rising-star director Xavier Gens, whose film Hitman already had fans excited, delivers a picture that can’t be made with the brakes on – it is full force or nothing. Like Alexandre Bustillo and Julien Maury’s À l'intérieur (also selected for this year’s Midnight Madness program), Frontière(s) follows close on the trail blazed by Alexandre Aja’s Haute tension, serving a vicious head-butt to the often diffident, condescending face of French cinema, a Grand Guignol tale for the twenty-first century. While Gens’s combative and relentless approach drenches the screen in viscera and filth, he still manages to evoke a lush fairy-tale atmosphere by working with cinematographer Laurent Bares, who also shot À l'intérieur. An ultra-referential film that respects the codes of the best survival pictures from The Texas Chain Saw Massacre to Deliverance, Frontière(s) is a hardcore thriller guaranteed to sock audiences on the chin. ~Toronto International Film Festival 2007

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