Border

This Swedish film is of the “the less you know about it, the better” variety, so beyond mentioning that it’s from a short story by the same author as “Let the Right One In” and that it examines a border control officer who finds herself in an unusual romance, I don’t know that I can touch on the plot very much. I can say that it’s moody, funny, strange and enthralling, that while the lead character is a border control officer it’s not in any ways the obvious immigration saga you might be expecting, Eva Melander and Ero Mionoff provide a great pair of performances in the two leads, that there’s a spirit of mystery and something very distinctively Scandinavian at the heart of it and that it’s a great work of modern cinema. Edgy, sometimes bizarre, melancholy and enthralling.