Frontier

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.

Cast

Johan Leysen Hans Deitz Linda van Dyck Marleen Ruyter Angela Winkler Rosa Clement André Dussollier Marcel Boas Héctor Alterio Andras Menzo Mariana Rey Monteiro Sabino's moeder Helena Isabel Paula Guedes Isabel Ribeiro Cecília Guimarães

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