Review of Frontier(s) (2007) by Patrick D — 12 May 2008

First of the writing in this film was great. Xavier Gens wrote a story that was a really interesting flip to the torture porn genre, taking alot of ideas from 70s exploitation and making them work today.

The acting also is pretty good, nothing to complain about. The actor for Claudia too, Amelie Daure, is ridiculously easy on the eyes, and a compelling person to watch, as is the Eva character, played by Maude Forget, who plays a very interesting and great character.

Where this film faults, and faults hard, is in the direction. Gens decides to take the route of many an MTV director and just assault the viewer with fast cuts and shaky camera, that really, horribly takes away from what's on screen and make one just annoyed at the images. It also has a sort of dirty, dark contrast look to it, that has become all too common, yet wouldn't be too bad is the camera could keep a shot longer than 5 seconds.

Basically this films direction is too distracting to enjoy the film, which ends up in the inability to get into the characters at firts and enjoyment of the movie doesn't come until over half-way through, when there is some stillness and the ability to assess the situation and care for the main character. unfortunately the director just has to rape your eyeballs as much as he can with his rock video aesthetics.