Tag: Ali Abbasi

Border

Border (Gräns) (2018)

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Border (Gräns) first published by Little White Lies It is clear from the outset that Border (Gräns) will be trafficking in the divisions of identity and alterity. A Swedish-Danish co-production from an Iranian director (Ali Abbasi, whose 2016 feature debut was the Danish horror Shelley), and adapted from a short story by Swedish author John…

Shelley

Shelley (2016)

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It is not uncommon for expectant mothers to experience anxieties about the life forms – both part of them and alien from them – that they are carrying inside, and as Roman Polanski’s Rosemary’s Baby (1968), the Alien franchise and Paul Solet’s Grace (2009) have all in their different ways demonstrated, genre cinema is adept…