Boarding Gate
- sombre
- brisk
- intense
- bleak
- cold
Sombre, kinetic, measured thriller / drama, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold.
How every film is hand-scored →A beautiful woman, Sandra, seduces a wealthy businessman, Miles Rennburg. Little does he realise that she has been sent to kill him at the behest of her boyfriend/crime partner, Lester. Controlling all this is Sue, Lester's wife.
Our read · Boarding Gate (2007) reads as a sombre, kinetic, inventive thriller · drama entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
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The shape of Boarding Gate
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The reading.
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