No. 12 (2019) Grans (Border). Feb 7th.

Film No 12 (2019) Feb. 7th.  6:30 PM  LUNA PALACE Leederville. 

"As a child I thought I was special, but then I grew up and realized I was a strange human being with a chromosome flaw". (Tina explains to Vore, her new friend, about her feelings for herself at an earlier age).

Border boosted Sweden's film profile at Cannes last year, winning the Un Certain Regard award. An award established to reward original cinema. Border is certainly refreshingly original. Mary Shelly's Frankenstein first explored the deep themes of beauty within the grotesque and Border plays with those themes and laces the plot with Nordic mythologies. Tina (Eva Melander) knows she is different but has fitted into society using her refined instincts as a Border/Customs official. Tina can smell evil, guilt and fear within people as they pass. She becomes compromised when "one of her own" comes into her life at the border. Yore (Eero Millonoff), will test Tina emotionally, to her limits. Could this be the breaking point in her confused existence? Border is a very dark contemporary fable. Like Tina, I felt, smelt and lathered myself in the experience. This film won't be everyone's cup of dark, rich broth!  9GUMS.