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Frontier of Dawn (2009)

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Reviews Counted:5

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Average Rating:6.2/10

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Genre: Dramas

Theatrical Release:Mar 13, 2009 Limited

Synopsis: After working together on REGULAR LOVERS, French filmmaker Philippe Garrel again directs his actor son, Louis, in this black-and-white drama. Laura Smet (THE BRIDESMAID) stars as a celebrity who is... After working together on REGULAR LOVERS, French filmmaker Philippe Garrel again directs his actor son, Louis, in this black-and-white drama. Laura Smet (THE BRIDESMAID) stars as a celebrity who is unhappy with her marriage and falls into infidelity with handsome photographer François (Louis Garrel). When her husband returns, the affair ends, and Carole’s unhappiness causes her to commit suicide. Later, when François is about to be married, he begins to see the ghost of his former love. FRONTIER OF DAWN also stars the elder Garrel’s student Clémentine Poidatz, as well as Emmanuel Broche and Olivier Massart. [More]

Starring: Louis Garrel, Laura Smet, Clementine Poidatz, Emmanuel Broche

Starring: Louis Garrel, Laura Smet, Clementine Poidatz, Emmanuel Broche, Olivier Massart, Jerome Robart, Cedric Vieira, Vladislav Galard, Gregory Gadebois, Eric Rulliat, Juliette Delegue

Director: Philippe Garrel

Director: Philippe Garrel
Screenwriter: Philippe Garrel, Marc Cholodenko, Arlette Langmann
Producer: Edouard Weil, Conchita Airoldi
Studio: IFC Films

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Garrel has mastered a own very personal tone that makes even a minor work such as this feel essential and vital

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05/28/09
Chris Cabin
Chris Cabin
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Tedious fatalistic French melodrama.

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Dennis Schwartz
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Has exquisite cinematography and an initially absorbing and compelling plot which, midway, loses steam and becomes pretentious and awkward while leaving you with a bad aftertaste.

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03/09/09
Avi Offer
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Love is a universe of two in Philippe Garrel’s fatalistic romance Frontier of Dawn.

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03/06/09
Manohla Dargis
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Garrel père reunites with Garrel fils for this frequently tedious rumination on rabid passion that still manages to linger in the mind.

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03/04/09
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