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Boarding Gate

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Boarding Gate
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R,1hr 46min
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March 21, 2008
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Magnolia Pictures
Synopsis: From director Olivier Assayas comes this erotic thriller starring Asia Argento as Sandra, a former prostitute, and Michael Madsen as Miles, her onetime pimp-turned-high-powered businessman. Brought back together after a separation, Sandra and Miles are reunited when Sandra returns to Paris after an extended absence. Despite the fact that neither of the two former lovers are the same people they were back in the day, their kinky sexual relationship is nonetheless rekindled. It seems that some time ... Full Synopsis
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Even in Boarding Gate, a modestly scaled, self-consciously tawdry exercise in genre appropriation, Mr. Assayas manages to say more about what it is to be human -- to desire, to fear, to be alone -- than most filmmakers say in a lifetime. Full Review
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Featured Cast
Sandra
Miles Rennberg
Lester Wang
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Michael Madsen, left, and Asia Argento in "Boarding Gate" (Magnolia Pictures)
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