If this is the effect Mr. Assayas wanted to achieve, he has succeeded admirably.
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03/19/08
Boarding Gate (2007)
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Reviews Counted:41
Fresh:11
Rotten:30
Average Rating:4.7/10
Consensus: Boarding Gate has little substance beneath its faux-thriller surface, and marks a step down from director Olivier Assayas' usual work.
Synopsis: Director Oliver Assayas has established his name by crafting well-made erotic thrillers like DEMONLOVER and CLEAN. The director sticks closely to his guns by adding another similarly themed entry... [More]
Starring: Asia Argento, Michael Madsen, Carl Ng, Kelly Lin
Director: Olivier Assayas
Reviews for Boarding Gate
It's not a perfect movie. At times, it's not even a movie. Yet the overall taste Boarding Gate leaves behind is intriguing enough to appreciate the whole elongated enterprise.
03/19/08
Riveting to watch largely due to Asia Argento's presence, Assayas' new film, suitably placed at the Midnight Section, displays visual fluency and other innovative devices deiberately applied to a lower-level subject that some will dismiss as trash.
05/19/07
[Boarding Gate] rocked me pretty hard.
02/29/08
Though graced with a performance by the fascinating Asia Argento, this noir film is difficult to follow.
03/10/08
The picture grows on you, as does its laconic leading lady, whose slurry delivery conceals an ever-alert mouse handily equipped to beat the cat at his own game.
03/20/08
The plot may be murky, but actress Asia Argento is a clear and commanding force throughout.
03/28/08
Top CriticBoarding Gate plays with various genre codes and conventions very differently than most run-of-the-mill modern thrillers.
03/20/08
Top CriticDistills genre tropes (and their consequent pleasures) to their lean, potent essence.
11/30/08
Boarding Gate's surfaces are often so staggeringly beautiful that its superficiality becomes forgivable, with the pleasant distractions of Assayas' multi-layered frames, Argento's sinewy allure, and snippets of Brian Eno ambience on the soundtrack.
03/20/08
This hypnotic, angular thriller about sex, murder, betrayal and money takes you on a feverish journey from nowhere to somewhere.
03/21/08
Boarding Gate’s decadent fancies are appalling.
03/19/08
Writer-director Olivier Assayas must have been working out some personal demons to make something as embarrassing as Boarding Gate, the most trite and trivial piece of sleaze since Abel Ferrara's Snake Eyes.
03/27/08
absolutely silly
03/21/08
Call it a cinema of guilty pleasure, and don't worry if you fall asleep in your seat after the sex scene is over. You won't be alone.
03/20/08
What it all means is up for grabs, but for connoisseurs of sadomasochistic nastiness, it’s a must-see.
04/17/08
[Director Assayas] may have something serious to say about the brutal impersonality of global capitalism, yet he’s caught somewhere between insight and exploitation.
03/17/08
Top Critic[Director] Assayas is out of his element here, and the encounters have no snap: It’s like one of those two-character plays in which the frequent pauses are filled with the audience’s coughing spasms.
03/17/08
There are long, droning bouts of dialog about nothing meant to link scenes together, but all Boarding Gate really does is fixate on watching Asia Argento do stuff.
03/22/08
The film hasn't much substance beneath its showy surface.
03/05/08
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