It takes a lot for a World War II movie to really set itself apart from the crowd, and Richard Holm's Beyond the Border (aka Gränsen) can't quite convince us armchair generals it's that different. The story of a group of Swedish soldiers behind enemy lines in Finland as the Germans prepare to invade their homeland, Beyond the Border manages some great moments but there's too much slavish adherence to type for it to be much more than very good overall. As a dry, savagely violent look at the messy business of war on a small scale, how human frailty leads people to make poor decisions and the terrible consequences those decisions lead to, it's fantastic. But Holm and star André Sjöberg (who co-wrote)...
- 8/11/2011
- Screen Anarchy
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