Boarding Gate
Part of the BAMcinematek series Sexy, Scary, and Often Naked: Asia Argento
Fri, Nov 7 at 2, 4:30, 6:50, 9:15pm
Directed by Olivier Assayas
With Asia Argento, Michael Madsen, Kim Gordon
(2007) 106min
“Argento is a nexus of contradiction. She’s a creature of premeditated instinct, a submissive dominatrix, at once abased and triumphant.” —The Village Voice
Drugs, prostitution, sex, and intense S&M. Argento is right at home in Assayas’ erotic thriller about two former business associates (Argento as former prostitute and Madsen as former pimp) who are reacquainted and resume their kinky relationship. Drug deals gone bad and sexual intrigue lead to a very sticky situation. In English, French, and Cantonese with English subtitles.
From The New York Times Review of Boarding Gate
"That said, 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." More
From The Village Voice Review of Boarding Gate
"There hasn't been so insolent a bad girl since the late-'70s punk queen Lydia Lunch, nor so bizarre a femme fatale since the pre-humanitarian Angelina Jolie. Argento is a nexus of contradiction. She's a creature of premeditated instinct, a submissive dominatrix, at once abased and triumphant." More